Himawari-8 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Typhoon Trami at Category 4 intensity during the 23-24 September 2018 period. The typhoon was going through an eyewall replacement cycle during this time — as seen on the MIMIC-TC product — which halted the period of rapid intensification that began early... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a narrow cloud band that had developed in Lake Michigan in response to land breeze induced convergence on the morning of 23 September 2018. With inland temperatures cooling overnight into the 30s and 40s F (the coldest in both Wisconsin and Michigan... Read More

A toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above) showed Category 2 Hurricane Florence off the coast of North Carolina at 0646 UTC on 13 September 2018. GCOM AMSR2 Microwave (89 GHz), Convective Rain Rate and Surface Rain Rate (below) indicated that the southern... Read More

Potential Tropical Cyclone 7 was located between the Bahamas and Florida during the pre-sunrise hours on 03 September 2018. Toggles between VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images from NOAA-20 at 0636 UTC and Suomi NPP at 0726 UTC are shown above (courtesy of William Straka,... Read More