Hail associated with a line of rapidly developing thunderstorms near the borders of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado heavily damaged Delta Flight 1889 bound from Boston to Salt Lake City, forcing an emergency landing in Denver (media report). An excellent blog post on the radar presentation of the system is here. What... Read More

Imagery from the Korean COMS-1 satellite, above, shows Category 3 Typhoon Soudelor approaching the island of Taiwan. The eye appearance becomes ragged at the end of the animation, suggesting entrainment of dry air into the center of the Typhoon. Although Sea Surface Temperatures are warm (image taken from here), strengthening... Read More

GOES-13 visible (0.63 µm) images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) revealed a large amount of ice remaining in southern and eastern portions of Hudson Bay, Canada on 07 August 2015. The ice can be seen “sloshing” back and forth during the day as winds and/or water... Read More