The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) that flies on the International Space Station (ISS) observed about 20 individual flashes in about a minute to the east of Japan on 1 February 2023, as shown in the animation above. Himawari-9 Band 13 clean window infrared (10.41 µm) imagery, below, bracketing the lightning... Read More

JMA Himawari-9 False Color RGB images from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed plumes of SO2 (brighter shades of cyan) drifting northward, westward and southeastward from the East Epi submarine volcano, following its eruption on 01 February 2023 (local time).  The differences in SO2 transport were due to directional wind shear with... Read More