Tornadoes are relatively rare in Japan, and the majority of them occur in association with tropical cyclones — but a tornado struck the city of Tsukuba, Japan on 06 May 2012, and was responsible for one fatality, over 40 injuries, and damage (rated F2 to F3) to nearly 500 homes... Read More

After 20:30 UTC on 21 March 2012, GOES-15 (GOES West) experienced a bad momentum unload, and at this point the satellite went into  a sun acquisition mode (a “safe mode”) and stopped transmitting data (latest GOES-15 status messages).... Read More

A large area of low pressure over the Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica on 07 January – 08 January 2012 (surface analyses) exhibited a beautiful signature of an occluding cyclone on 5-km ressolution MTSAT-2 6.75 µm water vapor channel imagery (above; click image to play animation). This storm prompted the... Read More

 MTSAT-1R 10.8 µm IR channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed Category 1 Tropical Storm Thane (06B) in the Bay of Bengal, moving toward the east coast of India on 28 December 2011.Contours of 850-200 hPa Read More