Severe weather occurred over Minnesota and Wisconsin on 2 June 2020, and the storms developed in clear skies. This allowed GOES-16 Derived Stability Indices (a clear-sky product) to provide information on the near-storm environment. The animation above combines GOES-16 Clean Window infrared (10.3 µm) imagery (where clouds exist) with Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) estimated from GOES-16... Read More

The tropical system in the southern Gulf of Mexico that owes part of its genesis to Eastern Pacific Tropical Cyclone Amanda has been named tropical storm Cristobal, the third named storm of the Atlantic Season.  Day Night band imagery from Suomi NPP, shown above from 0753 UTC on 2 June 2020 (when the system... Read More