• Tropical Storm Dalila close to southern Mexican coast

    System 96E in Eastern Pacific became a tropical depression late on June 29, 2013 and quickly grew into Tropical Storm Dalila early on June 30, 2013. 

    GOES Infrared satellite image and MIMIC Total precipitable water on June 30, 2013 (Credit:

  • New tropical cyclone forming in Eastern Pacific

    Shower activity associated with an area of low pressure centered about 500 miles SSW of Acapulco, Mexico has become better organized during June 28, 2013. Upper-level winds have become favorable for additional development and tropical depression could form during the

  • Tropical Storm Rumbia (Gorio) to make landfall in Philippines

    Tropical depression that formed east of Philippines on June 27, 2013 became Tropical Storm 06W and was named Rumbia. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has given the tropical depression the name

  • Timelapse of a supercell near Booker, Texas

    After four years of searching for perfect supercell in the Central Plains, photographer Mike Olbinski from Arizona and his friend Andy Hoeland captured an amazing rotating supercell near Booker, Texas. Rotating clouds looking like

  • Cosme became hurricane and weakened into tropical storm again

    Cosme is the second hurricane of the 2013 Eastern Pacific season. During late May, Barbara became a hurricane just prior to making landfall near Puerto Arista, Mexico in the Gulf of Tehuantepec. On June 26, 2013, Hurricane Cosme was battering Clarion Island,

  • Early monsoon brings trouble to Uttarakhand state, India

    Over the last few weeks torrential rainfall across northern India and Nepal has been inducing widespread flooding, cloudbursts, riverbank erosions and massive landslides. Heavy monsoon rains started about two weeks earlier than usual. 

    Torrential downpours

  • Two new areas of low pressure formed in East Pacific

    Two new areas of low pressure are forming in the East Pacific. Both of these systems pose little if any threat to land as they continue to move westward away from the mainland. 

    Combined infrared image by GOES West (09:30 UTC, June 23, 2013) and GOES East

  • Tropical Storm Bebinca weakens into depression in Gulf of Tonkin

    Bebinca made its first landfalls as a tropical storm on the eastern part of Hainan Island in the South China Sea on June 22, 2013. The storm system weakened to a depression due the land interaction, but it's expected to move further to the west-northwest