GOES-12 IR images (above) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site show Hurricane Dean making landfall along the Yucatan Peninsula region of Mexico during the early hours of 21 August 2007, with sustained surface winds near 165 mph. Dean was the first Category 5 storm to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin since Hurricane Andrew struck... Read More

The GOES-12 IR image (above) and the SSM/I 85GHz brightness temperature image (below) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site show Hurricane Dean shortly after it was upgraded to Category 5 intensity late in the day on 20 August 2007, with surface winds estimated to be about 160 mph. Dean is the first Category 5 storm... Read More

AWIPS images of the DMSP and POES AMSU rainfall rates along with the GOES-12 IR channel imagery (above) shows Hurricane Dean as a Category 4 storm in the western Caribbean during the morning on 20 August 2007. Satellite-based rainfall rates within the spiral bands of the hurricane were as high as... Read More

An animation of GOES-12 visible images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) shows that the northern eyewall of Hurricane Dean (rated Category 4, with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph) was affecting the southwestern portion of Jamaica on 19 August 2007. A visible image from NOAA-18 (below) gives a closer view, with some hints of mesovortex structure... Read More