The 10-minute full-disk imagery that is available from Himawari-8 captures the evolution of Tropical Depression 24S northwest of Australia. Convection is evolving on time-scales of 10 minutes or less, so the high temporal resolution is vital to describing the storm evolution. Of particular note are the development (and decay) of... Read More
The Kilauwea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawai’i began erupting in March 2008 (blog post | USGS reference), and has been in a nearly continuous phase of activity since then. During the pre-dawn hours of 28 April 2015, thermal signatures of the Kilauwea summit lava lake and nearby lava flows could... Read More
Severe thunderstorms moved across central Texas on April 24th (Link). The NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere product can be used with storms like this to alert a forecaster to when severe weather will develop. ProbSevere output tells you the probability that a given storm cell will first produce severe weather in the next... Read More
Suomi NPP overflew the erupting Calbuco Volcano in southern Chile around 0509 UTC or 2:09 am local time on 23 April 2015. The image above is the VIIRS 11.45 µm infrared imagery (click here for a similar view).The shock of the volcanic eruption generated mesospheric gravity waves (or “mesospheric airglow... Read More
