GOES-16 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) covered the period from 0200 UTC on 06 March to 0000 UTC on 20 March 2023 — and eventually showed the circulation of Cyclone Yaku off the coast of Peru (the clockwise circulation of Yaku was initially... Read More
GOES-18 infrared imagery (Band 13, 10.3 µm) and derived Total Precipitable Water, above, shows tropical Invest 91P several hundred miles south of American Samoa within a corridor of moisture associated with the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ). (Note that the default color scale for Total Precipitable Water (TPW) has been... Read More
Cyclone Freddy in the Indian Ocean continues to persist and is situated along the southwest coast of Madagascar. It is currently crossing the Mozambique channel for the third time. Freddy intensified to a Category 5 storm on 2023-02-15. It is now listed... Read More
Only 2 days after Cyclone Judy, Cyclone Kevin traversed the far southern islands of Vanuatu on 03 March 2023 — and due to a favorable environment of low deep-layer wind shear coupled with warm Sea Surface Temperature, the storm reached Category 3 Intensity at 1800 UTC. Kevin displayed a distinct eye, with feeder bands wrapping into the... Read More
