Tropical Storm Bolaven has formed in the western Pacific and is moving towards the Marianas Islands. Were there satellite products useful in monitoring the atmosphere prior to the storm’s development? One such useful product is the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) that is on both MetopB and MetopC polar orbiters at this website (or this one). The stepped animation above, from... Read More
Wave observations from the Aunu’u site just to the east of American Samoa, above, show waves exceeding 12 feet starting late in the day on 22 September and persisting through the weekend into the 25th. The National Weather Service office in Pago Pago issued High Surf Warnings during this eventASZ001>004-251915-Tutuila-Aunuu-Manua-Swains Island-Rose Atoll-705 PM SST Sun Sep 24 2023 ...HIGH SURF... Read More
Daytime EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above) showed Storm Daniel as it developed into a Medicane over the southern Mediterranean Sea on 09 September (with convective bands wrapping around the storm center), then moved inland across northeastern Libya on 10 September 2023.Hourly MIMIC Total Precipitable Water images from 09 to11... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Lee as it intensified to become a Category 1 Hurricane in the Central Atlantic Ocean on 06 September 2023. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -90C (brighter white pixels embedded within darker black areas). Lee had... Read More
