Turbulence over the Pacific Ocean affected at least one flight on Tuesday 27 December 2016 near 24º N, 162º E, as indicated by a pilot report issued at 1745 UTC:PGUA UUA /OV 24N 162E/TM 1745/FL340/TP B777/TB MOD-SEV/RM ZOAIn the animation above of the three Himawari-8 Water Vapor bands (sensing radiation... Read More
A mid-latitude cyclone intensified as it moved northeastward across Nebraska, the eastern Dakotas and northern Minnesota (3-hourly surface analyses) during 25 December – 26 December 2016. GOES-13 (GOES-East) Water Vapor (6.5 µm) images (above) showed distinct banding within the warm conveyor belt, a well-defined dry slot, and a large comma head that formed from the... Read More
Rapid-scan (2.5-minute interval) 2-km resolution Himawari-8 Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above; also available as a 173 Mbyte animated GIF) showed Category 4 Super Typhoon Nock-Ten making landfall in the Philippines on 25 December 2016. Nock-Ten became the strongest typhoon on record (SATCON | ADT | source) in the Philippines so... Read More
Following a short-lived eruption on 21 December, the Bogoslof volcano in the eastern Aleutian Island chain of Alaska erupted again at about 0110 UTC on 22 December 2016. The volcanic cloud could be seen moving north/northeastward away from Bogoslof (denoted by the yellow * symbol) on Himawari-8 and GOES-15 Visible images (above).... Read More
