1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) showed clusters of slow-moving thunderstorms across Torrance County in central New Mexico on 19 June 2024. In addition to generating strong winds and heavy rainfall, these storms were also prolific hail-producers — most notably, there was one Local Storm Report of 2.00-inch diameter hail that lasted for 1.5... Read More

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields from 15 June through 19 June 2024, above, show a broad cyclonic circulation over Central America and adjacent waters (the Central American Gyre). On 18 June, shown below in an animation from the CSPP Geosphere site, the convection in this gyre was diffuse and unorganized (although the... Read More

Starting on June 19, 2024, there was a large haboob (“wall of dust”) over New Mexico and nearby regions. This was captured by both GOES-18 (1-min “mesoscale”) and GOES-16 (5-min “Contiguous U.S.”) ABI imagery. What is shown is the CIMSS true color composite imagery during the day and the “dust” RGB at... Read More