Tropical Storm Noel formed in the Caribbean Sea on 28 October 2007. A GOES-12 visible image with ASCAT winds sourced from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) shows the cloudiness associated with the tropical storm, which was centered just south of Hispaniola. An animation of GOES-12 IR channel images (below) shows that a few bursts of... Read More

A NOAA-15 1-km resolution Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 10.8µm IR image centered over Madison, Wisconsin at 11:15 UTC or 6:15 AM local time on 26 September 2007 (above) shows that several of the smaller inland lakes across southern Wisconsin were... Read More

The slow movement of Tropical Storm Humberto over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico (above) allowed the system to intensify to become Hurricane Humberto (a Category 1 storm) during the pre-dawn hours on 13 September 2007. Humberto strengthened from a tropical depression (with 35 mph winds) to a hurricane... Read More

Tropical Depression #9 formed early in the day on 12 September 2007, and quickly intensified in the warm waters of the western Gulf of Mexico to become Tropical Storm Humberto (just off the coast of Texas). AWIPS images of the MODIS IR and visible channels (above; upper 2 panels) shows the early stages of... Read More