From its inception as a highly-sheared Tropical Storm on 04 October, Nicole moved in an erratic path with small intensity fluctuations for 8 days (above); then a period of intensification began on 12 October, with the storm reaching Category 4 intensity southwest of Bermuda at 03 UTC on 13 October. With ample... Read More

Copious amounts of moisture associated with Hurricane Matthew resulted in heavy rainfall (map | text list) and widespread flooding across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic US during the 07 October to 09 October 2016 period. Hourly images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (above; also available as a 22 Mbyte animated GIF) showed the high TPW values that... Read More

Hurricane Matthew is on a path that parallels the coast of Florida, with the center remaining just offshore. GOES-13 Visible imagery from a 1-hour time period this morning, above, shows the continued development of convection around the eyewall and the motion of convective bands inland. GOES-13 Visible images with hourly... Read More

Hurricane Matthew moved through the Bahamas overnight, slowly organizing and strengthening to Category 4 intensity after its interaction with the high terrain of the Greater Antilles (Note that Day/Night Band Imagery from overnight on 6 October — from this Blog Post — shows that city lights are back on in Port-au-Prince Haiti as recovery proceeds in that country). The three images above show... Read More