After spending some time meandering over Cuba and just off the northern coast of the island, Tropical Storm Noel began to intensify a bit and produce bursts of convection within its eastern semicircle as it started to move slowly northward during the day on 31 October 2007. AWIPS images of the GOES-12 10.7 µm... Read More

Tropical Storm Noel formed in the Caribbean Sea on 28 October 2007. A GOES-12 visible image with ASCAT winds sourced from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) shows the cloudiness associated with the tropical storm, which was centered just south of Hispaniola. An animation of GOES-12 IR channel images (below) shows that a few bursts of... Read More

The National Hurricane Center began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression 15 (located in the central Atlantic, east of Bermuda) on 11 October 2007. A GOES-12 visible image with ASCAT wind data sourced from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones website (above) suggested that maximum winds were only around 30 knots.There was strong southwesterly flow aloft over the developing... Read More

The slow movement of Tropical Storm Humberto over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico (above) allowed the system to intensify to become Hurricane Humberto (a Category 1 storm) during the pre-dawn hours on 13 September 2007. Humberto strengthened from a tropical depression (with 35 mph winds) to a hurricane... Read More