AWIPS images of the GOES-12 water vapor channel (above) showed 3 distinct cyclonic circulation features on 17 August 2007: (1) the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin over Texas, (2) a Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough (TUTT) over the Bahamas, and (3) rapidly intensifying Hurricane Dean over the western Atlantic Ocean (see the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site... Read More

AWIPS images of the GOES-12 6.5µm “water vapor channel” (above; QuickTime animation) revealed the large size of a cyclonic circulation off the southeast US coast on 08 May 2007. This system was eventually named Subtropical Storm Andrea by the National Hurricane Center the following morning. One noteworthy aspect of Andrea was the fact that it’s... Read More

An intense upper-tropospheric cutoff low was moving across the southern Rocky Mountain region on 24 April 2007, which was very evident on GOES-12 water vapor imagery (QuickTime animation). An AWIPS image of the 17... Read More

No…just a weak cyclonic vortex off the Atlantic coast of Florida that just happens to look like a tropical cyclone with an eye! GOES-12 visible imagery (above; Java animation) shows the cloud swirl as it developed what appeared to be an “eye” on... Read More