Hurricane Bertha became the first hurricane of the season in the Atlantic Basin on 07 July 2008,  setting a new record for the furthest-east named storm formation in the tropics. GOES-12 IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed increasing coverage of cold cloud top temperatures and the formation of an eye; microwave... Read More

Jesse Ferrell highlighted an undular bore emerging off the coast of Africa this morning, as seen in the annotated 1200 UTC Meteosat-9 image above (or click here). Bores occur when impulses move underneath stable layers, exciting a series of closely-spaced lines of clouds, as shown here, for example. Bores are associated with... Read More

While the Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclone season has been relatively quiet thus far, the Eastern Pacific Ocean was showing some signs of activity in late June 2008. Products from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site such as AMSU brightness temperature (above) and Satellite Consensus (SATCON) tropical cyclone intensity estimates (below) were useful to... Read More

Just 11 days after deadly Cyclone Nargis made its devastating landfall in Myanmar (also known as Burma), Meteosat-7 IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed a new tropical disturbance that was moving northwestward across the Irawaddy Delta region of Myanmar on 13 May 2008. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued the following Tropical... Read More