GOES-11 IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) depicted a nice symmetric eye structure exhibited by Hurricane Flossie as it maintained Category 4 intensity in the central Pacific Ocean on 13 August 2007. Judging from the IR imagery, Flossie appeared to be an annular hurricane — annular hurricanes tend to weaken more... Read More

The 2007 tropical cyclone season has been rather boring quiet in both the Atlantic and East Pacific basins so far…but on 16 July 2007, Cosme became the first East Pacific hurricane of the season (about 1600 miles east-southeast of Hawaii). It is interesting to note that only 4 previous East Pacific tropical cyclone seasons have... Read More

Super Cylone 02A (“Gonu”) intensified rapidly in the Arabian Sea on 03-04 June 2007. EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 InfraRed imagery (above; animated GIF) showed very cold cloud-top IR brightness temperature values (-80º to -88º C, violet to purple enhancement) in the... Read More

Tropical Storm Barry formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico on 01 June 2007 (the first official day of the Atlantic hurricane season). An AWIPS image of the GOES-12 10.7µm IR channel (above; Java animation) showed that... Read More