A GOES-12 IR image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed Tropical Storm Bertha continuing to linger over the western Atlantic Ocean on 16 July 2008 — this storm first became “Tropical Depression #2” over the eastern Atlantic, thirteen days earlier (on 03 July).GOES-12 visible images with an overlay of SeaWinds data from the QuikSCAT... Read More

Hurricane Bertha became the first hurricane of the season in the Atlantic Basin on 07 July 2008,  setting a new record for the furthest-east named storm formation in the tropics. GOES-12 IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed increasing coverage of cold cloud top temperatures and the formation of an eye; microwave... Read More

While the Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclone season has been relatively quiet thus far, the Eastern Pacific Ocean was showing some signs of activity in late June 2008. Products from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site such as AMSU brightness temperature (above) and Satellite Consensus (SATCON) tropical cyclone intensity estimates (below) were useful to... Read More

Category 4 intensity Cyclone Nargis made landfall across southern Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) late in the day on 02 May 2008, packing maximum winds around 135 mph (60 m s-1), producing a storm surge of 12 feet (3.6 meters), and dumping nearly 20 inches (51 cm) of rainfall. According to... Read More