Typhoon Goni hit the Phillipines as a major typhoon on 31 October.  Since then, an increase in shear and the topography of Luzon have both weakened the storm significantly.   The mp4 animation above (click here as an mp4) shows 2.5-minute Himawari-8 Target imagery Infrared (10.41 µm, left) and visible (0.64 µm, right) imagery from 0122 through 1352 UTC on 2 November. ... Read More

2.5-minute rapid scan JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed Category 5 Super Typhoon Goni in the West Pacific Ocean on 30 October 2020. The images revealed a very small “pinhole eye”, surface mesovortices within the eye and a trochoidal motion — all characteristics of a tropical cyclone... Read More

After making landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane along Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula a day earlier, a weakened Tropical Storm Zeta (NHC advisories) began to slowly re-intensify as it moved northward across the Gulf of Mexico after sunset on 27 October 2020 — 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images with an overlay of... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed Tropical Storm Zeta in the northwest Caribbean Sea on 25 October 2020. While it remained somewhat disorganized, Zeta slowly intensified from 35 knots to 45 knots during that time period. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature observed was -94.4ºC.GOES-16 Infrared images with... Read More