After passing over Key West on 18 August, Tropical Storm Fay made landfall along the Gulf Coast of the Florida peninsula on 19 August 2008. GOES-12 IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed that Fay... Read More
The Kasatochi Volcano (located in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska) experienced a series of eruptions on 07-08 August 2008. A comparison of visible channel images from the MTSAT-1R and GOES-11 satellites (above) shows the initial sequence of volcanic plumes from 2 very... Read More
The GOES-12 satellite was placed into Rapid Scan Operations (RSO) mode to monitor Tropical Storm Dolly on 21 July 2008 — the RSO visible images at 5-10 minute intervals (above) showed that deep convection was increasing around the core of the tropical cyclone. Dolly was moving northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico... Read More
A GOES-12 IR image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed Tropical Storm Bertha continuing to linger over the western Atlantic Ocean on 16 July 2008 — this storm first became “Tropical Depression #2” over the eastern Atlantic, thirteen days earlier (on 03 July).GOES-12 visible images with an overlay of SeaWinds data from the QuikSCAT... Read More
