The image above shows International Space Station orbital paths over the western Pacific Ocean on 24 July 2023, computed from the TLE files and displayed using McIDAS. Note the orbital path at 1600 UTC that moves from mainland China southeastward over Taiwan and then to Indonesia. This is in close... Read More

The animation below, showing GOES-16 Clean Window infrared imagery (Band 13, 10.3 µm; processed using geo2grid, v1.1), tracks the named storm Don, first named as Subtropical Storm Don at 0900 UTC on 14 July, reclassified as Tropical Depression Don at 1500 UTC on the 17th, and upgraded to a Tropical Storm... Read More

GOES-18 Night Microphysics imagery from 19 July 2023, above, shows a disorganized Tropical Storm Calvin moving south of Hawai’i before sunrise on 19 July. The low-level swirl of the system is apparent to the south of the Big Island; convection associated with the system develops during the animation over Hawai’i,... Read More

Suomi NPP overflew Tropical Storm Calvin to the east of Hawai’i at around 1136 UTC on 18 July. Data downloaded from the NODD, and processed by Polar2Grid (version 3.0), show the storm in very low light conditions, above. Calvin is moving rapidly westward towards Hawai’i, and interests in that state... Read More