Tropical Storm Isaac continues a track towards the central Gulf Coast of the United States (See the National Hurricane Center for further information). The GOES-14 animation above, with images shown every 5 minutes over the course of 5 hours, suggests that intensification has not occurred despite the presence of very warm waters (and low... 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
On 18 August 2012, GOES-14 provided Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) imagery of Tropical Depression Helene making landfall along the eastern coast of Mexico — McIDAS images of 1-km resolution 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play large 128 MegaByte... Read More
McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed Category 1 Hurricane Ernesto as it approached the far southeast coast of Mexico during the late afternoon and eary evening hours on 07 August 2012. The... Read More
