GOES-17 (GOES-West) visible imagery revealed the mesoscale cyclonic circulations of actinoform clouds within the marine boundary layer stratocumulus cloud field over the central Pacific Ocean on May 30, 2019. Actinoform clouds are a collection of marine low clouds with a radial structure. In satellite imagery, they look like distinct leaf-like or spokes-on-a-wheel patterns that stand out from the rest of the low-lying cloud field.
This type of cloud feature was originally identified in TIROS-V imagery over the Pacific Ocean in 1962 and was featured in the first Monthly Weather Review “Picture of the Month” series in January 1963.

Credit: NOAA/CIMSS

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