Hurricane Sally weakened to a Tropical Storm at 1800 UTC on 16 September. Sally is a prodigious rainfall producer. CMORPH (CPC Morphing Technique) Precipitation estimates (blogged about earlier) are available at this Real Earth website. Hourly estimates from 1300 through 2200 UTC are shown above.  Many locations over southern Mississippi show hourly multi-inch accumulations for much of the day.Daily precipitation for... Read More

At 0500 UTC on 16 September 2020, Hurricane Sally rapidly intensified (ADT | SATCON) to a Category 2 storm, and soon thereafter made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama at 0945 UTC. During that time period, 1-minute GOES-16 Infrared imagery — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) — displayed... Read More