CIMSS Satellite Blog Updates
The CIMSS Satellite Blog was updated with posts showing Meteosat-9 InfraRed (IR) and visible images of the development of an unusual tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea on 07-08 November 2011.
In addition, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-11), Multifunctional Transport Satellite (MTSAT-1R), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) IR, water vapor, and visible imagery of one of the strongest extratropical cyclones on record to impact the Bering Sea and Western Alaska was captured on 08-09 November 2011.
MODIS 11.0 µm InfraRed image at 10:04 UTC plus surface and fixed buoy reports, with and without an overlay of the surface pressure and surface frontal analysis at 12:00 UTC as an intensifying extratropical cyclone was beginning to move across the Bering Sea on November 08, 2011.