The National Hurricane Center initiated Invest 91 to monitor the potential development of a subtropical or even possibly a tropical cyclone over the western Atlantic Ocean on 20 April 2011. AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (above; click image to play animation)... Read More
Subtropical Storm “Ariani” developed off the southeast coast of Brazil on 15 March 2011. GOES-12 0.65 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) displayed a number of overshooting tops within the large cloud shield of the disturbance. Some hints of a cyclonic (clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere)... Read More
Tropical Storm Tomas became the 19th named storm of the 2010 Atlantic tropical cyclone season on 29 September 2010 (NHC advisory archive). The path of Tomas from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site can be seen above, along with a plot of the Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimate (below) which showed that there were a number... Read More
MTSAT-1R 0.68 µm visible channel images (above) tracked the eye of Super Typhoon Megi making landfall across the northern portion of the island of Luzon in the Philippines on 17-18 October 2010.The Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC) product (below) showed the well-defined eye of Megi... Read More
