JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed circulations of ice within the Sea of Okhotsk (east of Sakhalin Island — station identifier UHSS is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia) on 17-18 April 2019. Wind stress from an occluded Gale Force Low moving through that region on the previous day (surface analyses) likely helped to... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images (above) showed a mesoscale disturbance that was moving northward over the eastern Brooks Range in far northeastern Alaska on 17 April 2019. The curved configuration of the associated cloud structure suggested that a closed circulation center was... Read More
The subtle thermal anomaly (or “hot spot”) from the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire was evident in 4.8-km resolution (at satellite nadir) EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 Shortwave Infrared (3.92 µm) imagery (above) as a cluster of brighter yellow pixels just north of Paris Orly International Airport (LFPO) near the center of the images... Read More
-Panel GOES-17 Full-Disk Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Imagery, 0010 – 2340 UTC on 14 April 2019 (Click to play mp4 animation)Solar illumination of the GOES-17 Advanced Baseline Imagery (ABI) was at a maximum on 14 April, so that the effects of the Loop Heat Pipe that is not operating... Read More
