The Day-Night Band on VIIRS, flying on the Suomi/NPP satellite gave an excellent view of Isaac at strong tropical storm strength in the northern Gulf of Mexico shortly after midnight on August 28 2012. VIIRS is providing something unique to forecasters: Visible imagery at night that allows easy identification of overshooting... Read More
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
