While many of the nation’s meteorological eyes have been along the Gulf Coast as Isaias made just the first Atlantic hurricane landfall of 2026, that wasn’t the only part of the continental United States to be impacted by a tropical system this weekend. In the evening of October 10, the... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-19 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals — and Infrared Window imagery (above) showed Hurricane Isaias moving toward the US Gulf Coast on 09 October 2026. Isaias reached Category 3 intensity at 1220 UTC (Infrared image | NHC advisory). The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were in the... Read More
Once again, we see that 2026 continues to bring a large number of tropical systems in the Pacific. This time, we turn our eyes to the western part of our planet’s largest ocean to see a trio of tropical cylones in action. On the morning of 6 October 2026, three... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) Infrared Window images (above) showed Hurricane Nolo as it was intensifying from a Category 1 to a Category 2 storm while approaching the International Dateline (180 degrees longitude) on 04 October 2026. Once the tropical cyclone crossed the International Dateline, its ocean-basin-specific designation changed from... Read More
