Longwave infrared satellite shows the powerful midlatitude cyclone impacting the eastern U.S. today! The latest WPC surface analysis depicts an occluded surface low over the Mid-Mississippi Valley with the warm sector over the Southeast where severe weather continues. | RadarOmega

🌀 Cyclone Saturday underway over the Midwest and Atlantic Ocean today (8/17/24). In weather parlance, low-pressure systems are generally called "cyclones" and in the northern hemisphere, counterclockwise flow around a low is thus called "cyclonic." Looking at this satellite loop from this afternoon, the larger, land-based storm over Michigan is dubbed a "mid-latitude cyclone" due to its position on the Earth's surface (many of you may have visited the "mid" point of 45-degrees north latitude ne