Jesse Ferrell highlighted an undular bore emerging off the coast of Africa this morning, as seen in the annotated 1200 UTC Meteosat-9 image above (or click here). Bores occur when impulses move underneath stable layers, exciting a series of closely-spaced lines of clouds, as shown here, for example. Bores are associated with... Read More
Today’s CIMSS Satellite Blog entry will take a step back and focus on the larger scale. We’ll begin with an animation of GOES-12 visible images from 25 June 2008 (above). Several items of interest are apparent in addition to the normal diurnal development of thunderstorms across parts of North and Central America:... Read More
AWIPS images of the water vapor satellite composite (above) showed the evolution of a wide variety of synoptic-scale features across the Northern Hemisphere at 3-hour intervals during the 19 May – 20 May 2008 period. Of particular interest was the water vapor signatures associated with an occluding cyclone over the... Read More
Just 11 days after deadly Cyclone Nargis made its devastating landfall in Myanmar (also known as Burma), Meteosat-7 IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed a new tropical disturbance that was moving northwestward across the Irawaddy Delta region of Myanmar on 13 May 2008. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued the following Tropical... Read More
