GOES-13 0.63 µm visible images (above) and GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (below) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site showed Tropical Storm Bonnie crossing southern Florida on 23 July 2010.Bonnie was encountering increasing amounts of southeasterly... Read More

GOES-13 10.7 µm IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed the development of large convective bursts around the center of Hurricane Alex during the 29 June – 30 June 2010 period. Alex became the first June hurricane in the Atlantic Basin since the 1995 tropical cyclone season (which produced Hurricane Allison).An AWIPS image of POES AVHRR... Read More

An animation of GOES-13 visible images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed the development of a discrete low-level cyclonic circulation associated with the first Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone “Invest” of the season on 23 May 2010. An overlay of lower-tropospheric atmospheric motion vectors (along with a handful of ship reports) also showed... Read More

250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed that the oil slick resulting from the offshore oil rig fire and collapse (following an explosion on the night of 20 April 2010) continued to get closer to the coast of Louisiana on 29 April 2010. Along the far western edge of... Read More