Hurricane Teddy rapidly intensifies to a Category 4 storm
![GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density) [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/09/ted_ir-20200917_205956.png)
GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density) [click to play animation | MP4]
Metep-A ASCAT surface scatterometer wind speeds were as high as 74 knots in the northwestern portion of the eyewall (below).
Microwave (85 GHz) DMSP-17 (at 1023 UTC), GMI (at 1720 UTC) and DMSP-18 (at 2034 UTC) images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site are shown below.