GOES-West imagery, above, from the CSPP Geosphere site, shows Hawaii in a tradewind regime (direct link to animation). The animation, from 0121 to 0556 UTC on 21 September 2023, shows the steady progression of cloud lines moving east-to-west, with embedded regions of apparent showers that generate outflow boundaries. At 0431 UTC, Sentinel-1A overflew the eastern Hawai’ian... Read More
11 hours of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee as it approached Atlantic Canada and Maine on 16 September 2023. PTC Lee made landfall in far western Nova Scotia around 2000 UTC, and produced strong winds and heavy rainfall across much of Maine.A longer animation of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 Air Mass RGB images (below) portrayed the large size... 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
Himawari-9 Clean Window infrared (10.4 µm, Band 13) imagery (every 30 minutes) in late August and early September 2023, above, show the initially looping and later linear path of Typhoon Saola from its development east of the Philippines to its landfall in southern China. Saola was very strong just east... Read More
