Orphan anvil over the Atlantic Ocean
Something very strange off the Florida east coast… honestly not sure what that is pic.twitter.com/QjvN9YsWeU
— Brian Cizek (@CycloneCizekWx) October 4, 2019
The interesting east-to-west moving cold (brighter white) infrared signature mentioned above was determined by another Twitter user to be the convective debris of an isolated orphan anvil that developed over the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida (and north of the Bahamas) toward sunset on 03 October 2019. A comparison of GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images is shown below.
GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm, top) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm, bottom) images [click to play animation | MP4]
![GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images at 2301 UTC [click to enlarge]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/10/191003_2301utc_goes16_visible_infrared_Bermuda_orphan_anvil_anim.gif)
GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images at 2301 UTC [click to enlarge]
GOES-16 Low-level (7.3 µm, bottom), Mid-level (6.9 µm, middle) and Upper-level (6.2 µm, top) Water Vapor images [click to play animation | MP4]