Tropical Storm Debby formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 23 June 2012 — Debby was the earliest “D”-named (4th storm of the season) Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone on record. GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel... Read More

The image above from the SSEC Web Map Service (WMS) shows visible imagery of Tropical Storm Chris over the central Atlantic on June 20th, just south of the north wall of the Gulf Stream. Sea-surface temperatures are indicated by the color shading. The projected path of the storm, and the cone of uncertainty... Read More

Carlotta is the third named system, and second Hurricane, of the young eastern Pacific Tropical Season. Hourly imagery from GOES-East shows the increase in organization in the storm as it approaches the coast of Mexico on the morning of June 15 2012. AMSU imagery from Channel 7 at 11UTC on 15 June shows the characteristic warm core usually found... Read More

A sequence of four AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 0.65 µm visible channel data during the 25 May – 28 May 2012 period (above) showed the various stages of development of Subtropical/Tropical Storm Beryl as it slowly intensified over the far western... Read More