Hurricane Sally was moving very slowly in the north-central Gulf of Mexico at sunrise on 15 September 2020. A GOES-16 Mesoscale sector placed over the storm allowed for 1-minute imagery, and the Clean Infrared window animation, above, for the 2 hours centered on Sunrise, show a compact storm south of... Read More
Sally was upgraded to a Hurricane at 1600 UTC on 14 September. (Link)Hurricane warning have been issued along the central Gulf Coast on 14 September as strengthening tropical storm Sally approached. MIMIC estimates of total precipitable water, above, for the 24 hours ending at 11 UTC on 14 September show the moist airmass in the... Read More
Hurricane Gilbert (1988) is one of the most intense Atlantic-basin hurricane on record. NOAA’s GOES-7 offer both visible and infrared views of the storm. These images are from the VISSR mode. What is unique about the view from the geostationary orbit, is that it allows both large / synoptic scale... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed Category 4 Hurricane Laura as it made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana around 0600 UTC on 27 August 2020. The GLM data showed intermittent lightning activity along the inner eyewall region of the hurricane.Strong outer convective bands ahead... Read More
