GOES-15 Visible (0.63 µm) images (above; click image to play animation) showed the low-level circulation center (LLCC) of Tropical Storm Jimena becoming exposed as the tropical cyclone encountered increasing amounts of westerly deep-layer wind shear. Jimena had rapidly intensified to a Category 4 hurricane over the East Pacific Ocean in late... Read More
GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) images (above; click to play animation) revealed the low-level circulation of the remnants of Tropical Storm Erika moving off the coast of Georgia early in the day on 03 September 2015 (15 UTC surface analysis). Although there was one brief convective burst over the low-level circulation center (LLCC), it is unclear whether... Read More
Tropical Storm Fred reached hurricane intensity east of the Cape Verde Islands late in the day on 30 August 2015. As mentioned in the NHC discussion on the following morning, Fred was the first hurricane to pass through the Cape Verde Islands since 1892. While no central eye was apparent on... Read More
A composite of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC RealEarth site (above; click to enlarge) showed Hurricanes Kilo, Ignacio, and Jimena in the central and eastern North Pacific Ocean on 29 August 2015. All three of these Category 4 North Pacific hurricanes were located east of the International... Read More
