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
Category 4 intensity Cyclone Nargis made landfall across southern Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) late in the day on 02 May 2008, packing maximum winds around 135 mph (60 m s-1), producing a storm surge of 12 feet (3.6 meters), and dumping nearly 20 inches (51 cm) of rainfall. According to... Read More
