Hourly GOES-West imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site, above (direct link to animation), shows the development of a broad Kona Low over the Hawai’ian islands. MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) fields over the eastern Pacific, below, show a very moist airmass moving into the eastern Hawai’ian islands as the Kona low develops to the west. The OSPO Percent of Normal fields at 1200... 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
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) website has for more than a day been tracking invest number 91W, shown above. The feature is circled in yellow, meaning development is unlikely in the next 24 hours. What satellite data might be used to make that determination?MIMIC Total Precipitable water fields, for the 24 hours ending... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) include an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density — and showed the distinct circulation of a middle-tropospheric closed low (400 hPa analysis) as it moved northeastward across Illinois and Indiana into southern Lower Michigan on 25 March 2023. Isolated clusters of brief lightning activity were... Read More
