The National Weather Service forecast office on Guam (where the National Weather Service day begins!) has a very large Area Of Responsibility (AOR), as shown in this image; it stretches from the Equator northward to 25oN, and from the dateline west to 130oE. At ca. 1800 UTC on 1 April 2024 (no foolin’!) the... Read More

CIMSS Scientists have adjusted the presentation of individual thermodynamic variables produced from HEAP (NUCAPS) profiles for NOAA-20 overpasses that are available here in near-real time (at that website, chose j01 (that is, NOAA-20), crisfsr, and then images); HEAP software that supports NOAA-21 data is not yet available. Previously (above) values... Read More

Today marks the 64th anniversary of the first image from the meteorological satellite TIROS-1, which was available on 01 April 1960. While TIROS-1 was only operational for 78 days, it provided a number of images of the Earth and cloud systems (including the first image of a tropical cyclone, over the South Pacific Ocean... Read More