Looking back at
#HurricaneDorian
, here's a 1.5-day animation of 1-minute
#GOES16
Infrared images (including 30-second images for the first 3 hours) as the Cat 5 storm moved across Great Abaco Island & Grand Bahama Island: GIF | MP4
A
@NOAASatellites
#GOES17
/
#GOESwest
Mesoscale Domain Sector was positioned over the region at 0705 UTC, providing 1-minute images of the
#HungaTonga
volcanic cloud a few hours after the eruption - here is a sequence of Infrared images:
A pall of high-altitude
#smoke
originating from
#AustralianBushfires
could be seen drifting northeastward over Chile and Argentina this morning on
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Natural Color RGB images + the Smoke Detection derived product:
2.5-minute rapid scan
#Himawari8
Infrared images showing the formation of a well-defined eye and annular eyewall structure as Super Typhoon
#Wutip
reached Category 5 intensity west of
#Guam
:
The trochoidal motion of the eye of Typhoon
#Lekima
gets more interesting toward the end of this 24-hour animation of 2.5-minute rapid scan
#Himawari8
Infrared imagery:
Around the time that Super Typhoon
#Surigae
had reached its peak intensity (a few hours before sunrise), a
#SuomiNPP
#VIIRS
Day/Night Bad image revealed concentric mesospherc airglow waves propagating outward from the energetic Category 5 storm:
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Water Vapor images revealed shock waves emanating radially outward from each of the successive
#LaSoufrierevolcano
explosive eruptions over the past 10+ hours:
2.5-minute rapid scan
#Himawari8
Infrared images of Super Typhoon
#Hagibis
showing the formation of a larger eye following today's eyewall replacement cycle:
Preliminary/Non-operational
#GOES17
Water Vapor imagery showing the intensification of a Storm Force low as it moved toward the Pacific Northwest today:
For such a disruptive storm, the satellite presentation is a work of art. GOES-West True Color RGB images, from the
@UW_AOS
site: Note the widespread snow cover across far northern California.
#CAwx
#GOES16
Split Window (10.3-12.3 µm) brightness temperature difference showing one the more impressive blowing
#dust
signatures I've seen in a long while:
Some personal news: after 28.5 years of enjoying every moment of being an employee of
@UWCIMSS
, I'll be retiring at the end of the day tomorrow (project funding has run dry). I'm required to take a 75-day break in work activity, before possibly returning in some capacity. 1/x
#GOES17
Water Vapor images over the Southwest US & adjacent offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean have something for everyone today - a vorticity center approaching the coast, a banner cloud lee of the Sierra Nevada, mountain waves:
#CAwx
#NVwx
#AZwx
#UTwx
#GOES16
Water Vapor imagery shows that the size of the middle-tropospheric circulation associated with the midlatitude cyclone (that produced up to 30 inches of snowfall and blizzard conditions in
#NDwx
) remains impressive:
Animation is too large for Twitter (NSFT) - but here's an animation of the past 5 days (09-13 September) of
#GOES17
/
#GOESwest
True Color RGB images showing the evolution of Western US
#wildfire
#smoke
: Images created using Geo2Grid:
15 hours of 1-minute Mesoscale Sector
@GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Infrared images showed impressive views of the series of
#LaSoufrierevolcano
explosive eruptions - overshooting tops with IR brightness temperatures as cold as -84.8ºC, and cloud-top gravity waves:
2.5-minute rapid scan
#Himawari8
Infrared images during the rapid intensification of Super Typhoon
#Hagibis
as it approached the Northern Mariana Islands:
1-minute images from
#GOESEast
showed the continued presence of mesovortices within the eye of Category 4 Hurricane
#Beryl
as it approached the small island of Carriacou (just north of Grenada). Source - CSPP GeoSphere: ;
2.5-minute rapid scan
#Himawari8
Infrared images show the rapid intensification of Typhoon
#Chanthu
-- as portrayed by the appearance of a small-diameter "pinhole eye" within just a few hours as it approached the Philippine Sea:
With surface wind gusts in excess of 50 knots, 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
Visible images showed that the ice in southern Lake Michigan was taken for a ride:
#WIwx
#ILwx
#MIwx
As of 12 UTC,
#Surigae
became a Category 5 Super Typhoon in the West Pacific -- 2.5-minute interval rapid scan
#Himawari8
Infrared images showed the well-defined eye:
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Infrared and Visible images of Hurricane
#Sam
, which reached Category 4 intensity at 2100 UTC: A hint of mesovortices within the eye was seen in Visible imagery early and late in the day.
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
Visible and Infrared images: convective bursts in the western eyewall, rapidly rotating around to the southern and eastern edges of the eye of Category 5 Hurricane
#Willa
:
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
Visible & Infrared images - up close and personal view of a quasi-stationary pulsing updraft near Lubbock, which cooled to -77ºC at times. Beautiful Enhanced-V signature (implies an Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume):
#TXwx
As
#Beryl
strengthened to hurricane intensity, gravity waves began to propagate outward from overshooting tops near the central core. Source: CSPP GeoSphere ;
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Visible & Infrared images (with time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports) of thunderstorms which produced hail as large as 4.0 inches in diameter yesterday across southern Texas yesterday:
#TXwx
Alabama will NOT see any impacts from
#Dorian
. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane
#Dorian
will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.
#alwx
#GOES16
Visible imagery reveals what could be the artist formerly known as Tropical
#Invest91L
doing what vorticity does, in the general vicinity of
#Houston
:
#TXwx
#Himawari8
Visible and Infrared images showing the first 3 hours of the
#Taal
volcanic cloud after it erupted just south of
#Manila
(station identifier RPLL) in the
#Philippines
:
@StuOstro
Following up on Stu's tweet,
#GOES16
Water Vapor images showed the MCS merger developing an eye-like structure that would be the envy of any tropical Invest (including
#Barry
):
A longer/faster
#Himawari8
Infrared animation shows how the
#Krakatau
volcanic cloud has been persistently anchored over the eruption site for over 36 hours now, with episodic pulses of overshooting tops exhibiting temperatures of -80ºC or colder:
#GOES16
5-minute images captured the exhaust plume from the
#FalconHeavy
launch -- no thermal anomaly seen however (wish we had a 1-minute image sector down there):
#Himawari8
Infrared imagery indicates that the persistent volcanic thunderstorm produced by the eruption of
#AnakKrakatau
finally dissipated today around 09 UTC - a remarkable run of nearly 6 full days. Wonder if anything comes close in the satellite era?
That's quite impressive -- generally small-diameter hail, yet falling at a high enough rate to accumulate. The hail swath was also evident in 1-minute Nighttime Microphysics RGB images from
@NOAASatellites
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
: ;
#NEwx
@NWSHastings
Here's something we don't see every day:
Tonight's storm was such a prolific hail producer that the lingering hail on the ground can be seen on IR satellite! This is due to the temperature differences between the warm/dry ground and cooler hail-covered ground
#scienceiscool
🤓
24 hours of
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Dust RGB images showing the dense plume of blowing
#dust
originating from Western Sahara and Morocco, moving across the Canary Islands and the East Atlantic Ocean:
Numerous pilot reports of moderate
#turbulence
over Plains/Midwest -
#GOES16
Water Vapor images showed a strong warm/dry band along an axis of deformation Severe turbulence & transverse banding near jet axis
With arctic air flowing across
#GreatLakes
surface water temps in the 30s and 40s F, the lake effect snow process was quite evident in
#GOES16
True Color RGB images: (images from
@UW_AOS
: )
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Infrared images (with plots of Local Storm Reports) showed the growth of a large Mesoscale Convective System which moved southward across Wisconsin:
#WIwx
The impressive plume of Saharan Air Layer
#dust
continues to advance westward across the eastern Atlantic Ocean today, as seen in
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
True Color images:
Preliminary/non-operational
@NOAASatellites
#GOES17
Water Vapor images of the occluded Hurricane Force low in the West Pacific:
@NWSOPC
surface analyses:
#GOES17
Shortwave Infrared imagery is useful to better identify ship exhaust trails (or "ship tracks") over the East Pacific Ocean - particles in the exhaust seed the supercooled water droplet clouds, forming smaller droplets which reflect more sunlight
Not entirely sure what the cause of this quasi-stationary "wave cloud" feature is -- its orientation is not directly aligned with the topography. A few pilot reports of
#turbulence
seen across the Mid-Atlantic region.
#GOES16
Water Vapor images:
@NWSAWC
2.5-minute Target Sector
@JMA_kishou
#Himawari9
Visible and Infrared images revealed mesovortices within the eye of Super Typhoon
#Bolaven
, as well as the pronounced stadium effect structure of the eye -- more on the CIMSS Satellite Blog:
The ~1000-mile westward transport of unusually-dense wildfire smoke from the Western US was impressive yesterday, as seen in CIMSS Natural Color images: Of note were a couple of ship reports that mentioned smoke, hundreds of miles off the coast.
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Water Vapor images showed the thermal signature of superheated air in the wake of the
#SpaceXCrewDragon
rocket:
Infrared images from
@JMA_kishou
#Himawari9
revealed impressive cloud-top gravity waves associated with an eruption of
#Ruang
in Indonesia - coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures reached -90ºC (yellow pixels) immediately after eruption onset:
#Himawari8
Infrared images showing trochoidal motion and the re-emergence of a well defined eye as Tropical Cyclone
#Harold
once again rapidly intensified to Category 4 strength as it approached
#Vanuatu
:
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector
#GOES16
/
#GOESeast
Infrared images + plots of SPC Storm Reports show the supercell that produced a deadly tornado just north of Birmingham, Alabama last night: Coldest IR temps -66ºC black pixels)
@NWSBirmingham
#ALwx