10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphyscics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a signature of the Ariane-62 rocket condensation cloud (darker shades of blue) following the launch of EUMETSAT Metop-SGA1 from Europe’s Spaceport (Guyana Space Center) at Kourou, French Guyana about 3 hours after sunset on 12 August 2025 (the... Read More
2025 has proven to be an atypically wet year for American Samoa. The cumulative precipitation chart backs that up: going back to 1 January, the total rainfall at Pago Pago has been the highest on record up to this date, and total rainfall is 70% higher than a normal year.July... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared and Visible images (above) showed persistent deep convection (with sporadic lightning activity) near the center of circulation of Tropical Depression 2 (TD2), which developed in the Bay of Campeche (just off the coast of Mexico) around 2100 UTC on 28 June 2025. Periodic convective bursts contained... Read More
Total Precipitable Water (TPW) fields across the western Pacific (source), show a band of abundant moisture between 10o and 20o N latitude. In addition, the remnants of Sepat are moving to the north and east of Japan, and a tropical depression is making landfall over China to the north of Hainan... Read More
