Many meteorological eyes have been watching a system in the western Atlantic during the past couple of days. This GOES-12 visible image includes a circulation near 28 N, 70 W (more easily seen in the animation above) that could be the kernel of the next tropical system in the Atlantic.There are several notable... Read More

Hurricane Felix rapidly intensified from a Category 4 to a Category 5 storm off the northern coast of Colombia late in the day on 02 September 2007 (becoming the second Category 5 hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic Basin season). A GOES-12 IR image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) shows a well-defined eye surrounded... Read More

An animation of GOES-11 water vapor channel images (above) showed that Atlantic Hurricane Dean made landfall in Mexico on 22 August 2007, and eventually emerged into the Pacific basin on 23 August; the middle/upper tropospheric moisture associated with the remnants of Dean then moved slowly northward across the Baja California... Read More

After crossing the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, Hurricane Dean emerged into the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 storm late in the day on 21 August 2007. GOES-12 10.7µm IR imagery (above) shows a ragged eye associated with Dean; also note the burst of convection to the north and northwest of... Read More