Tropical Cyclone Harold made landfall on Vanuatu’s largest island of Espiritu Santo as a Category 4 storm (ADT | SATCON) on 05 April 2020. JMA Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the emergence of a well defined eye — which exhibited some trochoidal motion. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures... Read More

A thunderstorm over Jackson County, Oregon late in the day on 5 April 2020 produced abundant hail that accumulated to depths in excess of an inch over a wide swath of the county.  Visible animation from 1500 UTC on 5 April through 0300 UTC on 6 April show the region experiencing plentiful... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed a variety of precipitation types as a strong cold front moved slowly eastward across the Upper Midwest during the 02 April – 03 April 2020 period — including thundersnow snow at Aberdeen, South Dakota and Oakes, North Dakota (at 18 UTC on 02 April) and freezing rain at a... Read More

A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) and Air Mass Red-Green-Blue (RGB) mages (above) showed an occluding Hurricane Force low pressure system (surface analyses) off the US East Coast on 01 April 2020. In the Air Mass RGB images, darker red areas just south of the storm center indicated... Read More