An organized area of low pressure (Invest 90E) developed in the East Pacific Ocean on 08 May 2018 — the NHC gave it a 50% chance of becoming a tropical depression within 48 hours. GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a large convective burst in the... Read More

Heightened seismic activity of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawai’i had been ongoing since April 2018, but increased further in early May leading to a series of minor eruptions (Hawaiian Volcano Observatory | USGS) — and GOES-15 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the nearly persistent thermal... Read More

Severe thunderstorms produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds across parts of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa on 01 May 2018. A Mesoscale Domain Sector  provided images at 1-minute intervals — SPC storm reports are plotted on 0.64 µm “Red” Visible images (above) and 10.3 µm “Clean” Infrared Window images (below).Many of the storms exhibited cloud-top signatures... Read More

Morning #GOESEast 1 minute mesoscale sector over #CNY showing a glimpse of the #valleyfog in the upper Susquehanna & Delaware river basins co-located with the #snow in the higher elevations of the #Catskills. Both will be gone later today. pic.twitter.com/IDuVlQANvg — NWS Binghamton (@NWSBinghamton) May 1, 2018 As pointed out by... Read More