8 November 2013
Amazing Image of Haiyan From SUOMI
Posted by Dan Satterfield
The resolution is 375 meters on this image. Ctsy. Dan Lindsey at CIRA in Colorado.
There was apparently a big jump in lightning around the eye at landfall. More on that here. GOES R will have on-board lightning detection when it launches in a couple of years. This instrument alone is likely to lead to some new discoveries and significant improvements in now-casting and forecasting.
A nice loop of the eye from the Korean Weather Satellite is below:
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
One of the most well defined eye’s I have ever seen, reminds me of Hurricane Ivan (2004). Looks like the biggest Typhoon to hit the Philippines since Typhoon Durian in 2006.