Hurricane Rafael is in the Gulf of Mexico, drifting to the west. The MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) animation, above, shows a notable thinning in the band of moisture connecting Rafael to deep tropical moisture located over the southern Caribbean Ocean. Dry air from the Yucatan is also wrapping into... Read More

Day Night Band imagery from NOAA-20, below, captured from the NASA Worldview site, shows a great increase in emitted light associated with the Mountain Fire on 7 November over Ventura County, CA, to the north of Los Angeles. This occurred during a time with little lunar illumination — when moonlight is available, the smoke plume... Read More