At 1400 UTC on 27 August, strengthening tropical storm Ida sat south of Cuba, near the Isle of Youth, and is shown above in both visible and infrared imagery; brightness temperatures are as cold as -87 C in the image above. Note also that the surface circulation is southeast of... Read More
Grace (then a tropical storm) is shown in AWIPS above, in between Jamaica and the Caymans, in Day Night Band Visible imagery, along with VIIRS I05 Infrared imagery, from 0626 UTC, using data from the Direct Broadcast site at CIMSS. The coldest cloud tops with the most vigorous convection, shown... Read More
Microwave estimates of total precipitable water over the western Pacific Ocean (available here) show a moist airmass — out of which Typhoon In-Fa (seen near Taiwan in the animation) emerged — over the western Pacific Ocean. (The circulation of Tropical cyclone Cempaka is also apparent near the Gulf of Tonkin)... Read More
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/07/Elsa_CSPP-GeoSphere.mp4Night Time Microphysics (at night) and True-Color imagery (during the day) over the eastern Atlantic, 0920 – 1220 UTC on 1 July 2021Tropical Storm Elsa has formed over the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean. True-color imagery from CSPP Geosphere (link) shows the storm with occasional bursts of deep convection. Elsa has... Read More
