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Category: Tropical cyclones

Ida, Ascat and Turbulence

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

Henri becomes a hurricane off the US East Coast

Tropical Storm Henri intensified to become a hurricane at 1500 UTC on 21 August 2021  — and 1–minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed Henri during the 1400-2300 UTC period. Visible images indicated that a small-diameter inner core began to form later in the day.Henri was moving... Read More