The National Weather Service forecast office on Guam has a Direct Broadcast antenna, and CSPP software takes the downloaded signal and creates useful imagery. The example below shows JAXA’s GCOM AMSR-2 imagery at 36.5 and 89.0 GHz, and the structure of the low-level circulation (36.5 GHz) and upper-level clouds (89.0... Read More
True-color imagery from the CSPP Geosphere site, above, shows 4 named storms — Carlotta, Daniel, Emilia and Fabio — over the Pacific basin on 5 August. It is not common for 4 storms to exist simultaneously! The animation below during the day on the 5th shows the motion of the storms. Although... Read More
Typhoon Gaemi took a very unusual path on its route to a landfall along the eastern shore of Taiwan on 24 July 2024. HImawari-9 Clean Window infrared (Band 13, 10.4 µm) target scene imagery, below, (here is a shorter animation (animated gif) animation than the mp4 below) shows the storm... Read More
Hurricane Beryl made a (final) landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast, near Matagorda TX, at about 4 AM CDT/0900 UTC on 8 July. VIIRS imagery, above, from the SSEC/CIMSS Direct Broadcast antenna, shows infrared (I05, 11.45 µm) imagery and Day Night Band visible (0.7 µm) imagery around the time of landfall. It is noteworthy that city lights are unable to penetrate the thick clouds (some of the reduction in... Read More
