1–minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed Tropical Storm Henri as it moved over Block Island (station identifier KBID) around 1500 UTC and then made landfall along the coast Rhode Island around 1615 UTC on 22 August 2021. Infrared images depicted the coldest cloud tops of deep convection... Read More
Overpasses from NOAA-20 (0601 and 0741 UTC) bracket an overpass from Suomi-NPP (0651 UTC), above, to provide excellent night time visual imagery animation over Hurricane Henri as it moved northward towards landfall over southern New England. It is difficult to pinpoint the center of the storm in this imagery. Per the National Hurricane Center,... Read More
Tropical Storm Henri intensified to become a hurricane at 1500 UTC on 21 August 2021 — and 1–minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed Henri during the 1400-2300 UTC period. Visible images indicated that a small-diameter inner core began to form later in the day.Henri was moving... Read More
Training thunderstorms early Saturday caused historic rains and devastating (and deadly) flash floods early on Saturday morning 21 August 2021. (Click here for a listing of hourly precipitation totals at McEwen, TN; this excellent tweet from Tomer Burg shows the radar in the region). Were there satellite products that described the environment, rich in... Read More
