20 years ago today, powerful Cyclone #Olaf reached peak intensity north of American Samoa as likely one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever.

Deep convection in the outer rainbands of Typhoon #Shanshan (2024) from the EarthCARE satellite's cloud profiling radar (CPR) instrument. Related article: satnavi.jaxa.jp/en/news/2024/1…

Exploring more ESA's EarthCARE mission data... EarthCARE CPR scan of a disturbance east of Hurricane #Gilma in the NE Pacific on August 22, 2024.

EarthCARE scanned into Cyclone #Rae in the South Pacific earlier today, February 24, as it affected Fiji. ESA's EarthCARE mission

The lowest pressure recorded by this buoy in Cyclone #Alfred was 961.1 mb at 18Z, which seems to be inside or near the edge of the eye.

Currently #1 on Flightradar24 is #RPC5219, believed to be carrying former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, who is being flown to the Netherlands via Dubai after being arrested on an ICC warrant. flightradar24.com/RPC5219/396fca…

10 years ago today, powerful Cyclone #Pam impacted Vanuatu, where an incredibly low sea level pressure of 919 mb was measured in the eyewall (03/13 21Z) — yielding a central pressure estimate of ~ 895-905 mb via Schloemer equation.

Massive and shallow Mw7.7 #earthquake at the Sagaing fault, hit near Mandalay, Myanmar. Also felt in the neighbouring countries. emsc.eu/Earthquake_inf…. Very worrying... edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/asi…

An explosive eruption is currently occurring at the summit vent of Kanlaon Volcano that began at 5:51 AM today, 8 April 2025. The eruption is producing a voluminous bent plume approximately 4,000 meters tall that is drifting southwest. Pyroclastic density currents or PDCs

👀🇨🇳#China's research ships very busy around the 🇵🇭#Philippines' northern province of Batanes this week, including one--the Zhang Jian--passing directly through right now. Also happening this week in Batanes: Exercise Balikatan & 1st deployment of 🇺🇸NMESIS anti-ship missiles.🤔

Nice to see Josh Morgerman's data acknowledged in PAGASA's preliminary report for STY #ManYi (#PepitoPH). Min MSLP recorded by the Baler synop station to the south of iCylone's location was 965.6 mb with a max gust of 58 m/s (~113 kts).

EarthCARE overpass of deep convection with overshooting tops over southern China on May 4. Cloud top heights reached ~16 km, with corresponding min brightness temp of -86°C observed by the MSI instrument (500-m spatial res).

Due to "recent service changes", we will be losing all SSMIS microwave imagery going forward. Not great!

Impressive wave heights of 8m (26.2 ft) recorded by a drifting buoy (ID: 1801866) in the eastern semicircle of TS #Nari at 13Z-14Z as it approached Hokkaido earlier! >40kt winds (possibly even exceeding 50 kts) shown by ASCAT & Himawari ASWind despite being devoid of convection.

Typhoon Wipha is passing near the coast of Hong Kong. MSLP in the eye of the typhoon at Miaowan Island Station is 966.8hpa. The maximum gust along the coast of Guangdong reaches 50.6m/s, and the maximum sustained wind speed for 2 minutes is 38.8m/s.

China has begun building the world’s largest dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River raising concerns of irreversible harm to the fragile plateau & downstream ecosystems in India & Bangladesh, footage from the inaugural ceremony helps geolocate the site near Mainling in Tibet