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Category: Tropical cyclones

Medicane approaching Greece

A Medicane (a portmanteau of Mediterranean and Hurricane) has developed in the central Mediterranean Sea, and moved northeastward through the Ionian Sea towards Greece and Albania. Daily snapshots of VIIRS true-color imagery, above, from NASA Worldview, show a slow increase in organization. (Previous CIMSS Blog Posts on Medicanes are here, here... Read More

Hurricane Sally

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