The first tropical depression (update: Arthur was named as a tropical storm at 1500 UTC 1 July) of the season in the tropical Atlantic has formed just to the east of Florida. The visible imagery animation, above, shows persistent strong thunderstorms with overshooting tops in the area of disturbed weather... Read More
AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (above; click image to play animation) showed the well-defined cyclonic circulation associated with Tropical Invest 90E in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during the 06 May – 07 May 2014 period.Overlays of the tropical surface analysis... Read More
McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a distinct eye associated with Intense Cyclone Ita (23P) as it moved southwestward across the Coral Sea toward the coast of Queensland, Australia on 10-11 April 2014. Cyclone Ita exhibited a... Read More
As we have seen a number of times during the Winter 2013/2014 season, another strong Tehuano wind event occurred on 08 April 2014. McIDAS images of GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) data (above) showed distinct arc clouds... Read More
