Tropical Storm Georgette made its second landfall on Wednesday night, Sept. 22 at 11 p.m. EDT (8 p.m. PDT) just west of Guaymas, Mexico. Georgette has since dissipated.
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An instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite noticed increasing colder cloud top temperatures of tropical depression 15 in the south-central Caribbean just before it strengthened into Tropical Storm Matthew late on Sept. 23.
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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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Igor is now a post-tropical storm, and still huge as he swirls over the northern Atlantic Ocean. NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of Igor’s huge area of cloud cover.
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The fifteenth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean season has formed in the south-central Caribbean Sea, and the GOES-13 satellite captured its swirling mass of clouds and showers in a visible image 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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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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