GOES-16 infrared imagery, above, captures the landfall of Hurricane Beryl over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula near the town of Tulum at 1105 (UTC) (NHC Discussion). Beryl continues a brisk motion (15 mph) towards the west-northwest, so its time over land will not be very long. This will affect its subsequent strength over... Read More

GOES-16 clean window infrared imagery, above, shows the evolution (at half-hourly intervals; in reality, 1-minute data was available of its passage, along with lightning) of Hurricane Beryl‘s cloud field as it moved just south of the island of Jamaica. The time-step above was degraded to allow a comparison to Hurricanes Gilbert, see this too, (with... Read More

GOES-16 1-minute imagery over Hurricane Beryl, above, shows the Category 5 (on the Saffir-Simpson scale) storm moving across the central Caribbean to the south of Puerto Rico. At the beginning of the animation the cold cloud tops are distributed symmetrically around the storm; by the end of the animation, some... Read More

GOES-16 Full-disk imagery, above, shows strong Hurricane Beryl moving through the windward islands on 1 July 2024. Beryl made her first landfall on Carriacou Island at 1510 UTC on 1 July. Of note is that the distinct eye of Beryl is lost between about 0800 and 1000 UTC as very strong convection develops over... Read More