McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the formation of a large and well-defined eye as Super Typhoon 17W (Sanba) intensified over the West Pacific Ocean on 13 September 2012.A plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-14 1-minute interval Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) 1-km resolution 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed overshooting tops and cloud-top gravity waves associated with a large convective burst located just to the southwest of the center of Read More
An unusually strong area of low pressure moved northward into the Arctic Ocean and intensified during the 05 August – 08 August 2012 time period — a storm this deep (965 hPa central pressure) is exceptional for the Arctic Ocean region, especially during the summer month of August. A comparison... Read More
Tropical Storm Debby formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 23 June 2012 — Debby was the earliest “D”-named (4th storm of the season) Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone on record. GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel... Read More
