Overnight in the eastern Indian ocean, a tropical storm underwent significant deepening to become Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia. The name “tropical cyclone” might make one think of a comparatively weak storm compared to a hurricane, but that is because the names of these systems vary depending on the part of... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan Dust RGB images from GOES-18 (GOES-West), GOES-17, GOES-19 (Preliminary/Non-operational) and GOES-16 (GOES-East) created using Geo2Grid (above) showed vivid signatures of blowing dust (brighter shades of magenta) that originated over parts of northern Mexico and southwestern New Mexico — and was subsequently transported northeastward across southern New Mexico... Read More
One of the first things that meteorologists learn in their Intro to Weather class is that low pressure means cloudy skies and rain while high pressure means clear skies and sun. Of course, the second thing that meteorologists learn is that weather often doesn’t behave in a textbook way. The... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) displayed leeside cold frontal gravity waves (reference) as they propagated southward across Oklahoma, Texas and far eastern New Mexico on 8th February 2025.In a corresponding animation that included plots of surface wind barbs, peak wind gusts and... Read More
