2.5-minute rapid scan (Target Sector) JMA Himawari-9 “Red” Visible and “Clean” Infrared Window images (above) showed Category 4 Cyclone Ilsa as it approached the northwest coast of Australia, eventually making landfall near Port Hedland (station identifier YPPD) just after 1500 UTC on 13 April 2023. Overshooting tops within the eyewall... Read More
Tropical Cyclone Herman has upgraded to Tropical Storm status and currently sits in the Eastern Indian Ocean, approximately 1600 km from the coast of Western Australia. It has been measured to produce gusts up to 55 mph. As of yet, the storm poses no threat to human populations and is... Read More
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
