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Category: Metop

Tehuano gap wind event

As a strong arctic cold front moved southward across the Gulf of Mexico toward southern Mexico on 29-30 December 2025 (surface analyses), the cold front fractured as it moved inland across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec — the cold air was then channeled southward through Chivela Pass and emerged as a Tehuano... Read More

Long-duration offshore transport of glacial silt from the Copper River Delta in southern Alaska

10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) daytime True Color RGB and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images — created using Geo2Grid (above) — showed the offshore transport of glacial silt from the Copper River Delta in Southcentral Alaska from 11-23 December 2025. Even though cloud cover occasionally obscured the signature of this plume of airborne... Read More

Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Force Low south of Atlantic Canada

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (above) showed a rapidly intensifying Hurricane Force Low (surface analyses) that was approaching Atlantic Canada on 04 November 2025.Two examples of Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds having speed values greater than Category 1 hurricane intensity are shown below. 5-minute GOES-19 Water Vapor images (below) depicted a mid-tropospheric... Read More