Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina at 1115 UTC (7:15 am EDT) with estimated maximum winds of 78 knots (90 mph) and a minimum central pressure estimate of 958 hPa (28.29″). Overlapping GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided images every 30 seconds — “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) and “Clean”... Read More

Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Super Typhoon Mangkhut making landfall as a Category 5 intensity storm over the far northern portion of Luzon in the Philippines just after 17 UTC on 14 September 2018 (1 am local time on 15 September). The eye quickly deteriorated and became cloud-filled... Read More

GOES-8 Visible (0.65 µm) images (above) showed the cloud features — including spiral banding and a cloud-free core resembling an eye — associated with a deepening area of low pressure over Lake Huron (surface analyses) on 14 September 1996. This storm acquired some characteristics of a tropical cyclone, being referred to... Read More