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Himawari-9 longwave infrared imagery of Typhoon Dolphin over a roughly 9 hour period on August 7 showing a disorganized storm quickly becoming symmetrical with a clear eye.
Okinawa radar reflectivity animation on August 7 showing the compact eyewall of Typhoon Dolphin battering northern Okinawa before deflecting toward the northwest.
Okinawa radar imagery of Typhoon Dolphin's compact inner core veering southwestward toward Okinawa Island on Aug 7.
GOES-East longwave infrared mesoscale sector (1-minute frequency scan) satellite imagery showing Hurricane Genevieve rapidly strengthening into a powerful tropical cyclone with a clear, circular eye over open ocean. Lightning flashes are detected in the storm's outer spiral bands, as well as along the inner eyewall when it reaches maximum intensity.
GOES-East infrared image of powerful Category 4 Hurricane Genevieve on July 27 02:51 UTC over open ocean.
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GOES-West infrared satellite imagery of Hurricane Genevieve from 09:55 to 12:15 UTC July 26 showing a steadily intensifying tropical cyclone over open ocean.
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Photo of an ANA Airbus A320 coming in to land viewed from basically the same perspective as in the Cathay Pacific photo.
Side-view photo of a Cathay Pacific B777 just about to land taken from a rooftop not too far away on a hot summer afternoon. In the background is the Kansai Airport access bridge crossing over Osaka Bay with the Izumisano/Tajiri/Rinku Town skyline and large looming cumulus in the far distance.
Photo from Ishigaki, Japan of a hillside covered with lush, dense jungle on a humid summer late afternoon. A lone bird is flying above the vegetation. Dark, uneven mountains loom in the background. The sky contains large puffy clouds and blinding sunshine.
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Sunny daytime photo from atop a hillside about 300m from sea level looking out at a portion of the western Ishigaki coastline. To my right is a serene azure blue ocean cove lined with sandy beaches. To my left (farther inland) are dense vegetation and lumpy, lush mountains. Some hills and mountains are also visible in the background. The sky contains puffy white clouds.
RCM1 SAR derived 10-m wind speed image of Typhoon Bavi at 21:29 UTC July 10 showing a large typhoon atop Sakishimaretto. A local minimum in wind speed associated with the remnant inner eyewall is located just southeast of Taramajima, while Ishigakijima sits in a broader but slightly “less weak” local wind speed minimum associated with the moat.
Radar reflectivity image at 06:59 JST July 11 of Typhoon Bavi with a filamenting partial remnant eyewall surrounded by a much larger convective ring encompassing Iriomote to Miyako. The blue dot indicates my location on southern Ishigaki.
Radar reflectivity image of Typhoon Bavi at 02:14 JST 7/11 showing a large typhoon with a concentric eyewall structure approaching the southwestern Ryukyu islands. The blue dot marks my location in southern Ishigaki island.
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Radar reflectivity image of Typhoon Bavi approaching the southwestern Ryukyu islands. A blue dot on southern Ishigaki island indicates my location.
Cropped snippet of the JTWC July 8 2026 03z prognostic discussion: “EARLIER, ANIMATED HIGH-RESOLUTION HIMAWARI-9 VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWED TWO MESOVORTICES ORBITING ABOUT THE INNER EYEWALL, GENERATING A WAVENUMBER-2 ASYMMETRY.“
The same Himawari-9 visible satellite imagery as in the parent post but zoomed in on the eye and eyewall of Super Typhoon Bavi from 05z to 08z July 6.
06z July 6 HWRF model 10m wind speed and mean sea level pressure fields valid at 09z July 9. The pressure contours are extremely distorted and noisy around the eyewall.
Himawari-9 visible satellite imagery from 20 UTC July 5 to 08 UTC July 6 showing Super Typhoon Bavi crossing the Marianas archipelago from the east, enveloping Rota in the eye, then moving further westward away from the islands. Turbulent swirls are seen in the eye of the powerful typhoon.
Deterministic model track guidance for Typhoon Bavi for the suite initialized 00z July 6. Tracks tightly agree on a west-northwestward path up until 72 hours, then spread apart a lot as the typhoon is expected to turn toward the northwest afterward.
Himawari-9 satellite image of Super Typhoon Bavi just offshore of Rota island on the morning of July 6.
Guam reflectivity and spectrum width at 6:42am local time July 6 showing wave-like subvortices along the western and southwestern eyewall of Typhoon Bavi
Guam base elevation Doppler velocity and spectrum width image at 5:56am local time
Guam radar reflectivity image at 5:29am local time of Super Typhoon Bavi just about to hit or scrape by the island of Rota.
JMA forecast track graphic from 12z July 5 showing Typhoon Bavi (taifu 9-go) moving generally west northwest over the next 3 days, then turning more northwestward, reaching the far southwestern Ryukyus around 12z July 10.
Himawari-9 shortwave imagery on the local evening of July 5 showing extremely powerful Typhoon Bavi on final approach to the Marianas archipelago.
Guam radar reflectivity image showing a circle drawn around the eyewall of Typhoon Bavi at about 6km beam altitude. The circle has a radius of 27km but the maximum winds are most likely just inward of where it was drawn.
Guam radar reflectivity from 7:44 to 8:45pm July 5 Guam local time showing a powerful typhoon centered about 250km to the east of the island and getting ever closer.
Satellite image at sunset on July 5 showing an immense typhoon bearing down on Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan
Guam radar reflectivity and velocity around 13:50 local time (UTC+10) showing weak returns of the eyewall of a strong typhoon centered about 400km east of Guam.
Himawari-9 infrared imagery from 21z July 4 to 03z July 5 showing a powerful typhoon getting very near the Marianas archipelago.
Himawari 9 enhanced infrared image of Typhoon Bavi at 1130z July 4 showing tightly wound thin spiral bands around the western inner core emanating from an elliptical eye.
Himawari-9 visible satellite imagery of Typhoon Bavi from 20:00 UTC July 3 to 08:00 UTC July 4, 2026 showing a powerful tropical cyclone approaching the Marianas archipelago. Zoomed out version of the animation in the quoted post.
Himawari-9 infrared imagery from 05:40 to 10:30 UTC 04 July showing the eye of Typhoon Bavi deforming into a slightly elliptical shape that is quickly rotating counter-clockwise. The inner core cloud tops are also warming, indicating weakening convection almost certainly due to secondary eyewall formation.
Himawari-9 visible satellite imagery of Typhoon Bavi from 20:00 UTC July 3 to 08:00 UTC July 4, 2026 zoomed in on the inner core of a powerful, symmetric tropical cyclone with a clearing circular eye as the day progresses. The storm is mature, having reached a (temporary) peak intensity. From around early to late morning, rotating cirrus swirls are visible around the eye edge at the cloud top.
Himawari-9 infrared image with Dvorak enhancement at 16z July 3 showing a powerful and intensifying Typhoon Bavi
Zoomed out satellite view of a large, strengthening typhoon bearing down on the small Marianas archipelago
Himawari-9 infrared image at 09:00 UTC July 3, 2026 showing a fearsome-looking intensifying typhoon with a clearing, symmetrizing eye.
Himawari-9 infrared image of Tropical storm Bavi at 10z on July 2, 2026 showing an intensifying cyclone.
Photo of a radar display on an on board computer showing the aircraft flying toward the compact core of Tropical Storm Higos.
JMA earthquake shindo (shaking intensity) map graphic for an earthquake off Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Observed at 2026/06/25 07:30 Latitude Longitude Magnitude 40.2N 142.3E 6.9 Epicenter depth 50km Place name of epicenter Off the Coast of Iwate Prefecture
JMA Himawari-9 visible satellite imagery from 21-24z June 22, 2026 showing nearly stationary "ripples" in the upper cloud shield southwest of the center. Another thin, nearly straight "crease" in the clouds is weakly visible extending from the northern edge of the eye to the north-northwest along the cloud tops.
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Himawari 9 longwave infrared imagery from 1900z to 2350z June 21 showing Typhoon Mekkhala strengthening in the western Pacific. The storm is forming an eye toward the end of the animation.
Himawari-9 longwave infrared imagery of Typhoon Mekkhala from 0950z to 1210z June 21 showing a compact, disorganized typhoon with sputtering convection in the inner core region. The storm has not yet revealed an eye in the cloud tops.
June 19 06z HAFS-A model 700-300 hPa mean relative humidity and wind field valid at June 23 18z.
UM/RSMAS blended sea surface temperature analysis for June 19, 2026 in the tropical/subtropical Western Pacific showing warm SSTs above 28C virtually everywhere equatorward of 25N.
JTWC forecast track graphic for TS 07W as of 15 UTC June 19. At 12 UTC June 19, the storm had winds of 35kt. It's then expected to peak at 120kt around 12 UTC on June 22, when it is centered about 500 km east of the northern tip of Luzon. The storm is then forecast to slow down, weaken in terms of maximum winds, and grow in size while curving northward over the next two days.
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June 12, 2016 8am EDT NHC 7-day tropical weather outlook showing a banana-shaped 10% area highlighted along the far western Gulf of Mexico extending from the Bay of Campeche to the TX-LA border.
Taiwan Central Weather Administration accumulated rainfall map over the period June 6 00:00 to June 10 09:00 CST. A large portion of the country's west, including the Penghu Islands, is shaded with values over 150mm. Isolated areas in the interior have amounts over 200-300mm. Small areas along the eastern coastline have had relatively smaller amounts of less than 50mm.
Himawari-9 RGB image at 10:00 JST on June 10 showing the same frontal system as in the quoted post in roughly the same spot, but now dissipating a little. Pockets of strong thunderstorms are lined all along the front’s leading edge. The baroclinic cyclone over the Kuril Islands is actively occluding.
Himawari-9 RGB image at 16:00 JST on June 9 of an elongated quasi-stationary frontal system extending from southern China across the far Western Pacific northeast all the way to the Kuril Islands, where they join the core of a midlatitude cyclone
GFS 700-300mb mean relative humidity and winds from the forecast initialized at 18z June 5 valid at 00z June 10 (forecast hour 102). An elongated plume of moisture is draped off the coast of southern/southeast China and extends across Taiwan and the Ryukyu islands, feeding into a midlatitude low centered over the Kuril Islands.
Animated NEXRAD WSR-88D radar reflectivity mosaic from June 5 to 18, 2001 showing Tropical Storm Allison making landfall in Texas, meandering and looping around, reintensifying somewhat over Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and then accelerating slightly as it tracks across the U.S. eastern seaboard.
Animated GOES-8 infrared satellite imagery (4 km resolution) from June 5 to 17, 2001 showing Tropical Storm Allison making landfall in Texas, stalling and looping back southward over the next five days, then turning to the east over Louisiana and accelerating northeastward while tracking over the U.S. eastern seaboard.
NOAA-16 AVHRR false color satellite image of Tropical Storm Allison at 19:25 UTC (2:25pm CDT0 just before landfall in SE Texas. The storm has a compact, partly exposed low-level circulation located between Matagorda Bay and Galveston Bay. A large convective cluster extends several hundred km from the low-level center to the east and south.