The Garden Route Fires had been burning since about 24 October 2018 near George along the southern coast of South Africa (media story). On 29 October, EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.92 µm) and Longwave Infrared Window (10.8 µm) images (above) showed an elongated west-to-east oriented thermal... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed 2 types of terrain-induced features — mountain waves, and a banner cloud (reference 1| | reference 2) — across the Northeast US on 25 October 2018.The mountain waves were more widespread and long-lasting, while the banner cloud formed to the... Read More

Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 µm) imagery shows Super Typhoon Yutu poised to hit Tinian and Saipan in the Marianas Islands, to the northeast of Guam. The 0900 UTC Advisory from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center shows a storm with sustained winds of 145 knots, with strengthening forecast. JMA estimates... Read More

Thanks go out to Jason Alumbaugh from NWS Marquette, who sent the following in an email:“Previous shift here at NWS Marquette passed along interesting feature on satellite last night. Origin of the feature is approx. 49.23 N and 91.00 W (just west of CWDV – Upsala in Ontario) but eventually the... Read More