GOES-18 Clean Window infrared imagery, below, shows the development and evolution of Emilia and Fabio over the eastern Pacific Ocean (four named systems existed at one time in this animation; Emilia and Fabio are the two easternmost systems). The animation then shows the demise of Fabio (late on 7 August) as it moved over colder... Read More

The National Weather Service forecast office on Guam has a Direct Broadcast antenna, and CSPP software takes the downloaded signal and creates useful imagery. The example below shows JAXA’s GCOM AMSR-2 imagery at 36.5 and 89.0 GHz, and the structure of the low-level circulation (36.5 GHz) and upper-level clouds (89.0... Read More

True-color imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site, above, shows 4 named storms — Carlotta, Daniel, Emilia and Fabio — over the Pacific basin on 5 August. It is not common for 4 storms to exist simultaneously! The animation below during the day on the 5th shows the motion of the storms. Although... Read More

Typhoon Gaemi took a very unusual path on its route to a landfall along the eastern shore of Taiwan on 24 July 2024. HImawari-9 Clean Window infrared (Band 13, 10.4 µm) target scene imagery, below, (here is a shorter animation (animated gif) animation than the mp4 below) shows the storm... Read More