GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction at 1751 UTC, above, shows two cumulus fields over Wisconsin: a linear cloud field oriented west-southwest-to-east-northeast over the southern part of the state, and a larger field of agitated cumulus over the northern half of the state, with isolated glaciated storms near the border of... Read More
Elsa was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane at 1230 UTC on 02 July 2021 — and 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the tropical cyclone during and after the time period that it began to spread hurricane-force winds across the islands of Barbados and St. Lucia.... Read More
As noted here, CIMSS scientist Tim Wagner has created a short python script to read NUCAPS files generated by Community Satellite Processing Package CSPP software and Direct Broadcast (DB) data at UW-Madison CIMSS. The script relies upon several python packages: netCDF4 (version 1.5.7), matplotlib (version 3.4.2), numpy (version 1.21.0) and... Read More
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/07/Elsa_CSPP-GeoSphere.mp4Night Time Microphysics (at night) and True-Color imagery (during the day) over the eastern Atlantic, 0920 – 1220 UTC on 1 July 2021Tropical Storm Elsa has formed over the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean. True-color imagery from CSPP Geosphere (link) shows the storm with occasional bursts of deep convection. Elsa has... Read More
