GOES-16 CONUS sector imagery, above, captured from CSPP Geosphere (link), over Tropical Depression Fred just north of eastern Cuba in the Atlantic Ocean, shows a ragged circulation with very little convection in the center (click here to download the mp4 above). Fred has been disrupted by its passage over the terrain... Read More

Potential Tropical Cyclone 6 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Fred at 03 UTC on 11 August 2021, just south of Puerto Rico — 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 Fred as it made landfall along the southern coast of the Dominican Republic around 18 UTC.Fred was moving through an environment... Read More

Tropical Storm Mirinae, shown above, to the east of Japan (click here to see the same image with latitude/longitude lines), was overflown on 8 August by Radar Constellation Mission Satellite one (RCM-1) at 2013 UTC. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery (from this site) is shown below, with both polarities. The two... Read More

As the games of the 2021 Olympics progress, a weakening Tropical Storm Nepartak is moving over coastal waters to the east of Honshu, the main island of Japan. The Total Precipitable Water imagery, above, from MIMIC TPW, shows a plume of moisture wrapped around the circulation center. Himawari-8 Clean Window... Read More