EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Water Vapor images (above) showed a warming/drying signature (shades of yellow to orange) within the core of a rapidly-intensifying hurricane force midlatitude cyclone that eventually passed over Iceland on 14 October 2026 (1200 UTC surface analysis). A record-low October barometric pressure of 937.5 hPa was recorded at Vatnsskarðshólar (after altitude adjustment), breaking... Read More

10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) Infrared Window images (above) showed Hurricane Nolo as it was intensifying from a Category 1 to a Category 2 storm while approaching the International Dateline (180 degrees longitude) on 04 October 2026. Once the tropical cyclone crossed the International Dateline, its ocean-basin-specific designation changed from... Read More

It’s time to grab an apple cider donut and a pumpkin spice latte if you’re in the upper Midwest, because fall has arrived in the northern regions of the central United States. In the upper peninsula of Michigan, freeze warnings are out, and while other parts of the Midwest might... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Infrared Window images (above) displayed the cold cloud tops and periodic consolidation of a small and well-defined eye associated with Hurricane Rachel as it reached Category 3 intensity over the East Pacific Ocean (about 200 miles west of Mexico) on 01 October 2026. GLM Flash... Read More