Worldview 10

  

Upon close inspection of this mid-latitude cyclone (MLC) over the Mediterranean, two different vortices can be seen spinning in its center. Furthermore, the system is also drawing in a fair amount of Saharan dust. 

 

 

These swirls in the tropical NW Pacific are not associated with any kind of cyclone or some sort of terrain barrier. Their origins truly baffle me.




This image was captured near the beginning of winter when the sea ice was just starting to form off of Russia. The jagged coastline caused by the ice seems to be the cause of the dramatic pattern of cloud streets.



Here Typhoons Francisco (left) and Lekima (right) are nearing the end of their life. In fact, Francisco has already begun transitioning to a MLC with a front-like feature forming to its south.


 

These two volcanoes are currently erupting on the Kamchatka Peninsula. However, they don't show up on visible imagery (top) very well, but when viewed using other bands MODIS can capture (bottom), the hot craters show up as bright blue spots. 





In the South Pacific Ocean there is virtually nothing to affect storms. This MLC is very large and has a very well defined occluded center.



As usual, here is an interesting shot of some von Karman waves. But what makes this image unique is that each of the clouds in the stratocumulus deck seem to be twisting as well.



This small MLC was captured in the middle of Summer, which is when most MLCs occur far northward. This one is in the developing stage with the low center just inside the notch in the clouds, just to the northeast of the center of the image.



Two air masses meet in this image of the Philippines and the Strait of Luzon. The lighter color of the western air mass could be a result of suspended dust or a greater amount of water vapor.



South of Australia, chaotic currents are revealed by the algae they carry. It would appear that the algae bloom itself is occurring near the western edge of the image.