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Archive: Sep 2018

Medicane “Zorbas”

Medicane “Zorbas” — as named by Freie Universität Berlin (surface analyses) — developed in the Mediterranean Sea late in the day on 27 September 2018. A toggle between VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP (above; courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS) revealed the well-defined circulation of the... Read More

Hurricane Rosa

* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *GOES-15 (GOES-West) Infrared Window (10.7 µm) and GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Hurricane Rosa on the morning of 28 September 2018, after it had rapidly intensified to Category 4 intensity overnight (ADT | SATCON). Since GOES-17 was operating in... Read More