MTSAT-2 0.7 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) and 10.8 µm IR channel images (below; click image to play animation) showed a close-up view of the small “pinhole eye” exhibited by Super Typhoon Utor east of the island of Luzon in the Philippines on 11 August... Read More

A sequence of three AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR data (above) showed the relatively compact cloud structure associated with Hurricane Henriette over the Eastern Pacific Ocean during the 07 August – 08 August 2013 period. Cloud-top IR brightness... Read More

A sequence of three Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel images (above) showed Tropical Storm Flossie (NHC | CPHC) as it was moving westward toward Hawaii during the 27 July – 28 July 2013 period. The first and third of... Read More

Tropical Storm Dorian has formed in the far eastern Tropical Atlantic, just west of the Cape Verde Islands. The visible imagery above, from GOES-13 (left) and GOES-12 (right) shows the evolution of the storm in the morning on July 25th. The position change in six hours between 0845 UTC and 1445 UTC... Read More