Typhoon Chan-Hom in the western Pacific Ocean is forecast to strengthen and move towards Taiwan later this week. A Himawari-8 target sector is viewing the storm today, and a 5-hour animation with a 2.5-minute time step (10.35 µm infrared imagery) is shown above. Very cold overshooting tops (the yellow enhancement... Read More

July’s first Full Moon occurred at 0219 UTC on 2 July (a second full moon occurs later this month on 31 July). Strong illumination from the moon showed river valley fog in several tributaries of the Mississippi River (for example, the Wisconsin River in southwest Wisconsin; the Upper Iowa River in... Read More

The video embedded above shows GOES-13 Water Vapor imagery each hour for all of June. Water vapor imagery (6.5 µm) is handy for tracking features in the atmosphere, and various circulations are plain in the animation, including Tropical Storm Bill and Pacific Hurricanes Blanca and Carlos. The 10.7 µm... Read More