Target Sector (2.5-minute interval) JMA Himawari-9 AHI Red Visible (0.64 µm) and Clean Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Super Typhoon Man-Yi as it made landfall along the Philippines island of Luzon on 17th November 2024. Low-altitude mesovortices were apparent within the eye as it was offshore — then a notable convective burst developed as the... Read More
Day Night Band imagery from NOAA-20, below, captured from the NASA Worldview site, shows a great increase in emitted light associated with the Mountain Fire on 7 November over Ventura County, CA, to the north of Los Angeles. This occurred during a time with little lunar illumination — when moonlight is available, the smoke plume... Read More
The area of convection that has been percolating within the Caribbean has acquired sufficient organization and speed to be named Tropical Storm Rafael (at 2100 UTC on 4 November, near the end of the animation, above, created at the CSPP Geosphere site). The storm is approaching the island of Jamaica where Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect.1-minute... Read More
To the CIMSS Inbox, From to the Alaska Ice Desk:I noticed what I think are a pair of mesoscale convective vorticies forming on a boundary in the southeastern Beaufort Sea between the Mackenzie River Delta and the ice pack where there's still open water. I don't think there's much impactful... Read More
