Tropical Cyclone’s Debby slow progress up the east coast of the US (Blog Post) resulted in a prolonged rain event. The slider above compares the Susquehanna River on 1 August (a clear day before Debby) and on 13 August, after the inundation. The turbidity of the river, and its discharge into Chesapeake... Read More

GOES-16 Clean Window infrared (Band 13, 10.3 µm) images from 2-9 August 2024 show the development of Debby over the greater Antilles and then northward from Cuba, landfall in Florida and subsequent slow progress north along the eastern United States coastline, finally exiting the region on 9 August. The above animation was created using geo2grid software. ... Read More

GOES-18 Clean Window infrared imagery, below, shows the development and evolution of Emilia and Fabio over the eastern Pacific Ocean (four named systems existed at one time in this animation; Emilia and Fabio are the two easternmost systems). The animation then shows the demise of Fabio (late on 7 August) as it moved over colder... Read More

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