GOES-15 (GOES-West) Infrared (10.7 µm) images (above; also available as an MP4 animation) displayed the formation of a ring of cold eyewall cloud-top IR brightness temperatures (in the -80 to -90º C range, violet colors) during the period of rapid intensification of Hurricane Patricia on 22 October 2015; the storm reached Category 5... Read More
A plot of the Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimate for Hurricane Olaf (above) showed that the storm went through a period of rapid intensification during the 19-20 October 2015 period, reaching Category 4 strength. The National Hurricane Center noted that Olaf became the 6th major hurricane in the eastern North Pacific during... Read More
A 250-meter resolution Terra MODIS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) revealed the widespread orange hue of Autumn tree colors over parts of northeastern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan on 11 October 2015.A comparison with the corresponding MODIS false-color RGB image (below)... Read More
Historic rainfalls associated with tropical moisture and a surface low pressure system inundated portions of South and North Carolina over the weekend. During the first four days of October, Charleston SC had 17+” of rain, Downtown Charleston had more than 16″, Columbia had 11″, Myrtle Beach had 14″. In fact, new records were... Read More
