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[31-Aug@16:30 UTC] Many news outlets are reporting that Dorian is currently nearing "Cat 5" intensity. But, using the Windy weather picker (in "Winds" mode), the max surface winds appear to be about 71mph (on the North side) and pressure (in "Pressure" mode) at the eye is 1004mbar (30 minutes ago it was 980mbar).
In other words, Dorian seems to be barely Cat 1 intensity as currently rendered by Windy.
What is going on? Is the Windy weather picker broken? Or is the strength of this storm being over-hyped by the mass media?
[I am aware that this is a very old post, but it is still being searched and viewed, so I think it is important to correct some incorrect information presented here]
@TheRadarGuy
"The data is from NASA's GEOS-5 satellite."
GEOS-5 is not a satellite. It is a computer-based global atmospheric modeling system, maintained by NASA's Goddard research facility.
https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/GEOS_systems/
GEOS-5 can generate SO2 (and other chemical) data by a kind of simulation (called 'reanalysis') from computed estimates of SO2 concentrations, which are initialized and then consistently updated by interpolating satellite and meteorological observations (e.g. winds) using the GEOS-5 atmospheric circulation model to make geospatial 'forecasts' of SO2 concentrations between actual observations.
https://acd-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/People/Colarco/Mission_Support/
There are several satellites which carry SO2 sensors and can be used to initialize and update the GEOS-5 forecasts:
https://so2.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Petra, thank you for the explanation. I hope Windy will restore the GOES-5 link soon.
I would still like to know why CAMS shows so much SO2 in the West Pacific.
https://www.windy.com/-SO2-tcso2?tcso2,45.130,83.262,3,m:evfakm6
BTW your CAMS display shows SO2 in mg/m2, not kg/m2.