McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a distinct eye associated with Intense Cyclone Ita (23P) as it moved southwestward across the Coral Sea toward the coast of Queensland, Australia on 10-11 April 2014. Cyclone Ita exhibited a... Read More

GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed a distinct hazy plume streaming southeastward from the Katmai volcano area in Alaska on 22 September 2013. This was a signature of re-suspended volcanic ash — a deep layer of ash has remained on the ground near... Read More

McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed Super Typhoon Usagi in the West Pacific Ocean as it continued to move northwestward across the Philippine Sea. Note the slight amount of “trochoidal wobble” seen in the path of the eye. The coldest... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-14 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed Tropical Storm Barbara as it intensified to Category 1 hurricane shortly before making landfall along the coast of the Gulf of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico on Read More