Hurricane Bill
Bill became the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2009  season on 17 August 2009. GOES-12 IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) displayed a canopy of very cold cloud tops around the center of... Read More
Bill became the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2009  season on 17 August 2009. GOES-12 IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) displayed a canopy of very cold cloud tops around the center of... Read More
GOES-12 visible (daytime) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR (night-time) images (above) showed a distinct swirl of clouds drifting northward across the Gulf of Mexico on 13 November – 14 November 2008. This cloud... Read More
Hurricane Ike (satellite montage) made landfall as a Category 2 storm during the early hours of 13 September 2008. The comparison of GOES-12 and GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (above)... Read More
The GOES-11 (GOES-West) satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 10 September 2008, allowing imagery at 1-minute intervals to monitor Hurricane Ike in the Gulf of Mexico. Using the visible channel imagery (above; Read More