Overnight in the eastern Indian ocean, a tropical storm underwent significant deepening to become Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia. The name “tropical cyclone” might make one think of a comparatively weak storm compared to a hurricane, but that is because the names of these systems vary depending on the part of... Read More
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) True Color RGB images — created using Geo2Grid (below) displayed ice in southwestern/southern Lake Michigan that was being driven away from the coastlines of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana by gusty NW winds on 14th January 2025.GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (below) included plots of surface and buoy reports... Read More
Screen captures of VIIRS Day night imagery from NASA Worldview, above, show the distinct signature of light emitted from fires on 8 January. Three separate fires are apparent. The toggle below compares the views early on 7 and 8 January.Day Night Band Imagery from early on 9 January 2025, shown below... Read More
Day Night Band imagery from JPSS satellites, above, processed using CSPP software on data from CIMSS and Monterey Direct Broadcast antennas, show a ribbon of Aurora over southern Canada early on the 1st of January. Activity was much brighter over the western part of North America. The Aurora is visible... Read More
