The GOES-13 satellite captured a look at Hurricane Igor this morning, and noticed the storm continues to grow larger and part of that expansion is likely a result of absorbing Julia’s remnants.
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Hurricane Karl made landfall near Veracruz, Mexico on Friday, Sept. 17 and moved inland over Mexico’s rugged terrain, which took the punch out of the storm.
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Taiwan experienced a landfall and a soaking from Typhoon Fanapi, and NASA and JAXA’s TRMM satellite noted a large area of very heavy rain in the system before it made landfall this weekend.
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This Atlantic hurricane season has now spawned 14 tropical depressions and 12 of them have strengthened into tropical storms. The latest is now called Tropical Storm Lisa and is in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean.
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The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite is a good gauge for scientists to determine if a tropical cyclone is strengthening, by seeing if their cloud top temperatures have cooled.
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Tropical Storm Georgette formed pretty quickly and the GOES-11 satellite captured her clouds extending over extreme southern Baja California and western Mexico today.
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The GOES-13 satellite captured a look at Hurricane Igor this morning, and noticed the storm continues to grow larger and part of that expansion is likely a result of absorbing Julia’s remnants.
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Check NASA’s Hurricane Twitter feed for a daily behind the scenes look at storms in the tropics.
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NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a sole source contract to ITT Corporation of Ft. Wayne, Ind. The award is for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument planned for flight on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) in 2014.
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Snow melt in the Colorado River basin is occurring earlier, reducing runoff and the amount of crucial water available downstream.
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