An Embraer 175L took off from Tampa shortly before 1900 UTC on 20 July 2022. About an hour into the smooth flight (as shown here, i.e., around 1945-1950 UTC), turbulence injured about 7 passengers that resulted in a diversion to Birmingham AL (news article; Here is the flight path). The animation... Read More

GOES-17 visible and infrared imagery shows Tropical Storm Estelle over the eastern Pacific to the west-southwest of Baja California. Although there are regions of strong convection, satellite presentation of the storm suggests a modest tropical storm. Center-fixing a storm such as this (with just one image vs. an animation!) is... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed that a large wildfire burning in far western Manitoba produced a series of 3 brief pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 19 July 2022. The coldest pyroCb cloud-top infrared brightness temperature was -52.1ºC at 0230 UTC.GOES-18 images... Read More

GOES-18 images shown in this blog post are preliminary and non-operationalGOES-18 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images during the 18 July – 19 July 2022 period (above) showed a series of impulses rotating within the broader circulation of an anomalously-deep low pressure system that meandered over the Bering Strait region. Anomalously-cold air... Read More