Tropical Convection to Bring Heavy Rainfall to Guam
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Tropical Convection to Bring Heavy Rainfall to Guam
It is mid to late July, and the western Pacific Ocean is starting to see its share of tropical activity. While Tropical Storm Francisco is spinning toward the Ryuku Islands of southwestern Japan, the people of Guam have their eyes on Invest 98W, an intensifying…
First recorded eruption of Krasheninnikov on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia
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First recorded eruption of Krasheninnikov on the Kamchatka P…
Himawari-9 Ash Height derived product [click to play MP4 animation] A radiometrically retrieved Himawari-9 Ash Height product from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed the volcanic cloud produced by the first recorded eruption of Krasheninnikov…
Super Typhoon Ragasa (Nando) hits Philippines, Taiwan
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Super Typhoon Ragasa (Nando) hits Philippines, Taiwan
For the past few days, the eyes of the Philippines and Taiwan have been focused on a developing tropical system in the western Pacific. What began as a small group of convective cells northwest of Micronesia on 16 September 2025 has grown into the most intense…
Multiple pyrocumulonimbus clouds produced by a bushfire in southwestern Queensland, Australia
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Multiple pyrocumulonimbus clouds produced by a bushfire in s…
10-minute Himawari-9 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm, top), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, center) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm, bottom) images, from 0250-0830 UTC on 13 December [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
Invest 94W Poised to Become Tropical Cyclone
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Invest 94W Poised to Become Tropical Cyclone
A deepening circulation north of Palau in the western Pacific is projected to intensify into a tropical storm between 3 and 4 February 2026. This system is currently (as of 1600 UTC on 3 Feb 2026) labeled as Invest 94W, but analysis from the Joint Typhoon…
The Impacts of Parallax, or Looking at the Same Scene from a Different Perspective
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The Impacts of Parallax, or Looking at the Same Scene from a…
A recent question from the Weather Service Office in Pago Pago, Amercian Samoa, brought up the issue of parallax. GOES-18 is located at a longitude of 137 degrees west, while American Samoa is at 170 degrees west. This means there’s around 33 degrees of longitude…
Cyclone Narelle rapidly intensifies over the Coral Sea
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Cyclone Narelle rapidly intensifies over the Coral Sea
2.5-minute Himawari-9 Infrared images, from 0602 UTC on 18 March to 0119 UTC on 19 March [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
Cyclone reaches Category 4 off the coast of Western Australia
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Cyclone reaches Category 4 off the coast of Western Australia
2.5-minute Himawari-9 Infrared images, from 0602-2359 UTC on 26 March [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
Cyclone Maila rapidly intensifies to a Category 4 storm near the Soloman Islands
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Cyclone Maila rapidly intensifies to a Category 4 storm near…
10-minute Himawari-9 Infrared images, from 0000 UTC on 07 April to 0000 UTC on 08 April [click to play animated GIF]
Mirror Image Pacific Tropical Storms Straddle the Equator
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Mirror Image Pacific Tropical Storms Straddle the Equator
A somewhat unusual event could be found on the morning of 10 April 2026 when twin tropical cyclones could be found in the western Pacific. Since each storm was on the other side of the equator, the two systems were rotating in opposite directions. To the…
Sinlaku Intensifies to Category 5, threatens the Marianas and Guam
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Sinlaku Intensifies to Category 5, threatens the Marianas an…
Typhoon Sinlaku (whom we introduced to you two days earlier when it was a mere tropical storm) has undergone steady and significant intensification and has now reached Category 5 status with estimated winds as high as 150 knots (170 mph). Satellite imagery…
Super Typhoon Sinlaku rapidly intensifies to a Category 5 storm
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku rapidly intensifies to a Category 5 st…
2.5-minute Himawari-9 Infrared (10.4 µm) images, from 0602-2102 UTC on 12 April [click to play animated GIF]
Super Typhoon Sinlaku approaches Saipan in the Mariana Islands
2.5-minute Himawari-9 Visible images ‘[click to play animated GIF]
2.5-minute Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 AHI Visible images (above) and Infrared images (below) showed Category 4 Super Typhoon Sinlaku as its eye approached Saipan (station identifier PGSN) in the Mariana Islands on 13 April 2026.
2.5-minute Himawari-9 Infrared images [click to play animated GIF]
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2.5-minute Himawari-9 Visible images ‘[click to play animated GIF]
2.5-minute Target Sector JMA Himawari-9 AHI Visible images (above) and Infrared images (below) showed Category 4 Super Typhoon Sinlaku as its eye approached Saipan (station identifier PGSN) in the Mariana Islands on 13 April 2026.
2.5-minute Himawari-9 Infrared images [click to play animated GIF]
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Island-induced Convection over Guadalcanal
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Island-induced Convection over Guadalcanal
Islands in warm tropical seas can create convection through a combination of factors that work together to foster deep convection. A recent example from the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during the day of Monday 20 April 2026 illustrates this.…
#Typhoon #MEKKHALA
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#Typhoon #HIGOS
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#Typhoon #BAVI
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