Tropical Storm Larry has formed in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean. The large-scale view of the tropical Atlantic, shown above, taken from CSPP Geosphere (direct link to the imagery) shows Larry west of Africa. Tropical depression Kate is also apparent, and that storm again has convection near its center as shear there has relaxed. Kate... Read More
The animation above, of GOES-16 Visible (0.64 µm) imagery, shows Tropical Storm Kate at sunrise with convection near the storm center and to its east. (An overnight image from Suomi NPP’s Day Night Band, below, taken from NASA Worldview, also shows convection near the storm center.) As the day progresses, however,... Read More
1-–minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed that Hurricane Ida gradually developed an eye, as the Category 1 storm intensified to Category 2 by 1800 UTC on 28 August 2021.Microwave (85 GHz) images from DMSP-17 (above) and DMSP-16 (below) — from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site — provided 2 views of the eye... Read More
At 1400 UTC on 27 August, strengthening tropical storm Ida sat south of Cuba, near the Isle of Youth, and is shown above in both visible and infrared imagery; brightness temperatures are as cold as -87 C in the image above. Note also that the surface circulation is southeast of... Read More
