Sally was upgraded to a Hurricane at 1600 UTC on 14 September. (Link)Hurricane warning have been issued along the central Gulf Coast on 14 September as strengthening tropical storm Sally approached. MIMIC estimates of total precipitable water, above, for the 24 hours ending at 11 UTC on 14 September show the moist airmass in the... Read More
The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Morphing (CMORPH) technique produces global estimates of hourly precipitation and those data are available in real time at this website. (Other JPSS/ABI-related flood products are available there as well). CMORPH uses microwave data from Polar Orbiters to estimate rainfall. Infrared information is related to those microwave... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed Category 4 Hurricane Laura as it made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana around 0600 UTC on 27 August 2020. The GLM data showed intermittent lightning activity along the inner eyewall region of the hurricane.Strong outer convective bands ahead... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed Laura during the the 12-hour period after it intensified from a Tropical Storm to a Hurricane in the southern Gulf of Mexico at 1215 UTC on 25 August 2020. Numerous convective overshooting tops were observed, some exhibiting cloud-top infrared brightness... Read More
