Super Typhoon Rammasun has made landfall in southern China – apparently this was the strongest typhoon to hit the South China region in 41 years (news story). The COMS-1 IR animation, above, shows the storm skirting along the north shore of the island of Hainan before hitting... Read More
Typhoon Neoguri is forecast to move west of Okinawa later today. The visible images above, from COMS-1 (left) and MTSAT-2 (right) show the storm at around 0800 UTC on 7 July 2014. A distinct eye filled with low-level clouds is apparent.Magnified views of the storm center (above; click image to... Read More
GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel images with overlays of surface pressure and frontal analyses (above) showed Category 2 Hurricane Arthur (NHC discusions | blog post) transitioning to a powerful extratropical (or “post-tropical”) storm as it moved northward over the... Read More
04 July Update: a 1-km resolution Terra MODIS 11.0 µm IR image (above) showed the eye of Category 2 Hurricane Arthur making landfall along the coast of North Carolina around 03:13 UTC or 11:15 pm Eastern Time. Arthur was the earliest hurricane to make landfall in North Carolina since records... Read More
