A slightly longer animation — covering the period from 20:40 on 6 December to 09:40 UTC on 7 December — of Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 μm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 μm) and Infrared Window (10.4 μm) images is shown below. The pyroCb cloud formed near the center of the images, and the cold anvil of the cloud […]