From a Slack Channel (because email is so 2012!) comes a link to RealEarth (imagery shown below) that shows Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) estimates of SSTs. The sinuous bendings of the Gulf Stream include a pronounced warm eddy with a ragged thermal edge. (The exercise in determining whether this is inertial instability in this anticyclonic gyre... Read More

Tropical Storm Nadine made landfall in Belize on 19 October (at 1600 UTC), and parts of this system then crossed Central America and entered the Pacific Ocean (Here is the NHC discussion that mentions this — from 1500 UTC on 20 October). Tropical Storm Kristy formed off the coast of Mexico later in the day on the... Read More