Tropical Cyclone Mal has formed in the South Pacific Ocean. As of 2023-11-13 at 1950Z, Mal’s center is located approximately at 14°S, 173°E, and about 550 km northwest of Fiji. The system is predicted to continue moving southeast. 24 frames

Total Precipitable Water fields 0000 UTC 10 November – 1700 UTC 13 November 2023 (Click to enlarge) MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields over the south Pacific near Fiji and Australia, above (source), show the development of a cyclonic circulation in

GOES-16 Band 2 visible (0.64 µm) imagery, 1436 and 1441 UTC on 6 November 2023 (Click to enlarge) CIMSS provides (free of charge) CSPPGeo software that can create (and plot) gridded GLM data from GLM Level 2 LCFA files. The

GOES-18 daytime True Color RGB and Nighttime Microphysics RGB images, from 1850 UTC on 11 November to 0600 UTC on 12 November [click to play MP4 animation] 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) daytime True Color RGB + Nighttime Microphysics RGB images from

The first GOES-13 Full Disk visible image from June 2006 (left) and the final (fully illuminated) EWS-G1 Full Disk image from October 2023 (right). The Imager on GOES-13 captured approximately 2,307,267 images (counting each of the 5 spectral band as

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images, from 1231 UTC to 1601 UTC [click to play animated GIF | MP4] GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed a narrow (2-4 miles in width) plume of smoke+fog — the smoke