South Korea’s GK2A satellite (carrying the AMI instrument that is very similar to both AHI on Himawari-8 and ABI on GOES-16/GOES-17) is overhead on the Equator at 128 E Longitude, and satellite imagery (link) and products (link) are available online. The low-level Water Vapor animation (GK2A Band 10, 7.3 µm),... Read More

The highest peaks of the Big Island of Hawai’i are under Blizzard warnings as of early 3 December 2021, as shown in the screen capture below from the National Weather Service in Honolulu.The image above shows NUCAPS Sounding Availability in AWIPS over the central Pacific. A long swath of profiles was available from a... Read More