VIIRS Day Night Band visible imagery (at 0.7 µm) on 23 October, above, shows a dark patch over the Mid-Atlantic right to the east of New Jersey and the Delmarva peninsula. Chesapeake Bay waters are also much darker than most of the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Dark patches such as these... Read More
Tropical Storm Nadine made landfall in Belize on 19 October (at 1600 UTC), and parts of this system then crossed Central America and entered the Pacific Ocean (Here is the NHC discussion that mentions this — from 1500 UTC on 20 October). Tropical Storm Kristy formed off the coast of Mexico later in the day on the... Read More
LightningCast probabilities (from this website) over the Central Dense Overcast of Tropical Cyclone Bebinca in the western Pacific to the northwest of Guam, above, show increasing values (the island of Guam is center bottom of the imagery above): magenta are values of 75%. Lightning activity within the central core is often a... Read More
The radiosonde profile from the balloon launch just before 0000 UTC 7 September, above, (imagery from the Wyoming Sounding site), shows a very moist airmass, with saturation from the surface up to 400 hPa, and relative dryess above that level. Total Precipitable Water was 63 mm.NOAA-20, NOAA-21 and Metop-C all provide NUCAPS (NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric... Read More
