Color-enhanced wind speeds observed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data on the second RADARSAT Constellation Mission satellite (RCM-2), shown above in AWIPS (Click here for a similar image online at this website) show parallel lines of enhanced wind speeds, a wind structure suggestive of a bore (click here for many previous... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed that a decaying Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) produced a low-level Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) over the Gulf of Mexico on 22 May 2022. The coldest MCS overshooting tops exhibited infrared brightness temperature of -77C around 1401 UTC. GOES-16 Visible (ABI... Read More
This NOAA/OSPO website shows regions where SAR data are available each day. SAR data can also be imported into AWIPS, as shown in the animation above, which animation has the SAR data overlain on top of GOES-17 Band 7 (Shortwave IR, 3.9 µm) data. Note that SAR winds are not valid... Read More
The tropical disturbance (formerly 95W) in the western Pacific south of Guam (discussed here) has strengthened and become the second western Pacific named storm of the year: Malakas. The storm is about halfway between the islands of Guam and New Guinea. The side-by-side imagery above, showing Himawari Band 3 and... Read More
