Late in the day on 06 July 2021, Tropical Storm Elsa regained hurricane intensity as of 0000 UTC, just off the west coast of Florida. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the tropical cyclone during the 1500 UTC to 0000 UTC time period. In the morning, cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -80ºC... Read More

AOML (The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) maintains a Direct Broadcast antenna site that holds satellite imagery (created using CSPP — the Community Satellite Processing Package) created when a tropical system — such as Elsa — is within the download footprint of the AOML antenna.  This imagery — particularly in the microwave... Read More

Elsa was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane at 1230 UTC on 02 July 2021 — and 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the tropical cyclone during and after the time period that it began to spread hurricane-force winds across the islands of Barbados and St. Lucia.... Read More

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/07/Elsa_CSPP-GeoSphere.mp4Night Time Microphysics (at night) and True-Color imagery (during the day) over the eastern Atlantic, 0920 – 1220 UTC on 1 July 2021Tropical Storm Elsa has formed over the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean.  True-color imagery from CSPP Geosphere (link) shows the storm with occasional bursts of deep convection.  Elsa has formed... Read More