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
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Infrared images (above) revealed the exposed low-level circulation center (LLCC) of Tropical Storm Kiko as the system continued to weaken north of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and downgraded to a Post-Tropical Cyclone at 1500 UTC on 10 September 2025. Clusters of deep convection developed north... Read More
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
