https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/07/MIMICTPW_LastTenDaysEPAC_end27July2020.rockanim.mp4 MIMIC TPW rocking animations from 17-27 July 2020 (and back) [click to play mp4 animation] Morphed Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC) estimates of Total Precipitable Water are derived from microwave sensors such as AMSU and ATMS on different polar-orbiting platforms. MIRS retrievals are used to estimate Total Precipitable Water from each polar swath, and those swaths are then advected... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed  Category 1 Hurricane Douglas as it moved just north of Hawai’i during the day on 26 July 2020 (the boundary of the Mesoscale Sector was abruptly shifted westward at 1658 UTC). The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -80ºC.The apparent storm... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed Category 1 Hurricane Hanna making landfall along the South Coast of Texas at 2200 UTC on 25 July 2020. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature was -88.6ºC at 1633 UTC. Winds gusted to 76 mph at Buoy 42020, and at 18 UTC a ship about 30... Read More

Real Earth captured the cold cloud tops associated with vigorous convection with tropical storm Gonzalo shortly after midnight on 24 July 2020.   The VIIRS Imagery from NOAA-20, above, (the day’s NOAA-20 passes in the region (from this site) are shown here) shows numerous cloud tops colder than -80ºC (the purple enhancement).True-color imagery... Read More