Tropical Storm Dorian has formed in the far eastern Tropical Atlantic, just west of the Cape Verde Islands. The visible imagery above, from GOES-13 (left) and GOES-12 (right) shows the evolution of the storm in the morning on July 25th. The position change in six hours between 0845 UTC and 1445 UTC... Read More

A sequence of MTSAT-2 0.675 µm visible channel images (during daytime) and 10.8 µm IR channel images (during the night) revealed the signature of what could be a “midget” tropical cyclone which was moving westward across the western Pacific Ocean during the 17 July – 19 July period (above; click... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-14 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed Tropical Storm Barbara as it intensified to Category 1 hurricane shortly before making landfall along the coast of the Gulf of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico on Read More

AWIPS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed the formation of a mesoscale vortex over far northwestern Wisconsin during the day on 26 March 2013. Overlays of MADIS 1-hour interval atmospheric motion vectors (below) showed... Read More