On 18 August 2012, GOES-14 provided Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) imagery of Tropical Depression Helene making landfall along the eastern coast of Mexico — McIDAS images of 1-km resolution 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play large 128 MegaByte... Read More
McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed Category 1 Hurricane Ernesto as it approached the far southeast coast of Mexico during the late afternoon and eary evening hours on 07 August 2012. The... Read More
The Day-Night Band from VIIRS on the Suomi/NPP has been giving excellent imagery of Tropical Storms Ernesto and Florence over the weekend. The views are especially crisp because of the near fullness of the moon. For example, the sheared nature of Ernesto (top) is evident, and the overshooting tops in... Read More
A strong tropical wave near 50 W Longitude in the central Atlantic has become a Tropical Depression. The enhanced infrared image above shows a region of active convection (as signified by the overshooting tops designated by yellow circles) near the center of the system. (Current imagery of overshooting tops can... Read More
