NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above; courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS) showed the eye of Hurricane Lane in the central Pacific Ocean at 1208 UTC on 22 August 2018, a few hours after it reached Category 5 intensity (SATCON). Surface mesovortices were evident within... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *“Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images from GOES-17 and GOES-16 (above) showed the circulation and convective banding associated with Subtropical Storm Debby in the Atlantic Ocean on 07 August 2018.Deep-layer wind shear analysis from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (below) indicated that Debby was in an environment... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images from the AOS site (above) showed the circulation of Hurricane John as it was intensifying from a Category 1 to a Category 2 storm off the west coast of Mexico on 07 August 2018. Several tropical overshooting tops could be seen in the animation.GOES-16 Upper-level... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *A toggle between NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above; courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS) showed the well-defined eye of Hurricane Hector after it had reached Category 4 intensity on 06 August 2018 (advisories: EPAC | CPAC).GOES-17... Read More
