1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed Category 1 Hurricane Lee as it moved northward between Buoy 41048 and Bermuda (station identifier TXKF) on 14 September 2023. As shown in the plot below, the highest wind gust at Buoy 41048 was 41.0 m/s (79.7 knots, or 97.7 mph) at 2010 UTC (data transmission... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Lee as it intensified to become a Category 1 Hurricane in the Central Atlantic Ocean on 06 September 2023. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -90C (brighter white pixels embedded within darker black areas). Lee had... Read More
Himawari-9 Clean Window infrared (10.4 µm, Band 13) imagery (every 30 minutes) in late August and early September 2023, above, show the initially looping and later linear path of Typhoon Saola from its development east of the Philippines to its landfall in southern China. Saola was very strong just east... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (with/without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density) (above) — which included 15-minute plots of METAR surface reports and hourly plots of Fixed Buoy reports as Category 3 Hurricane Idalia made landfall along the Big Bend coat... Read More
