GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a long rope cloud feeding into the western portion of Tropical Invest 98L in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on 22 September 2021. The rope cloud was located near the African Monsoon Trough (12 UTC surface analysis), and north of the rope cloud the hazy appearance of... Read More
Hurricane Nicholas made landfall on the Gulf Coast shortly after 0530 UTC on 14 September. It is a challenge to determine the storm center from the animation above, although deep convection is suggestive of its location. Note the collapse of deep convection as well at the end of the animation. Radar... Read More
True-color imagery from the VIIRS Today website, below (click here for a direct link to the image below at the VIIRS Today site), shows an unusual sunglint pattern over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, to the southwest of the Florida peninsula. Typically, sunglint features are fairly wide... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the circulation of Subtropical Storm Raoni (discussion issued by MARINHA) off the coast of Argentina/Uruguay on 28 June 2021.In the corresponding GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (below), the coldest cloud tops exhibited infrared brightness temperatures around -50ºC (shades of yellow).===== 29 June Update =====GOES-16 Visible... Read More
