GOES-12 visible images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site on 15 August 2009 (above) showed that the low-level circulation of Tropical Storm Ana (the first named Atlantic Basin... Read More

MTSAT-1R InfraRed (IR) images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed the rapid development of a cold Central Dense Overcast (CDO) as Tropical Storm 07W (Molave) intensified east of the Philippines in the West Pacific Ocean on 16 July 2009. It is interesting to note that the CDO was centered a... Read More

GOES-12 visible images (above) revealed the northward propagation of an large convective outflow boundary across the Bay of Campeche (in the far southwestern Gulf of Mexico) on 02 July 2009. A larger-scale GOES-12 visible image (below) showed that at one point this outflow occupied an area approximately the size of... Read More

Hurricane Andres (briefly) became the first hurricane of the Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone season on 23 June 2009. However, the satellite presentation of Andres was rather unremarkable: even though a low-level “eye” circulation was recognizable on GOES-11 visible images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above), the GOES-11 IR cloud top temperatures (below) were... Read More