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Hurricane Teddy rapidly intensifies to a Category 4 storm

By Scott Bachmeier •

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]

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]

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images — with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed Hurricane Teddy as it rapidly intensified (ADT | SATCON ) to a Category 4 storm on 17 September 2020. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were in the -80 to -85ºC range.

Metep-A ASCAT surface scatterometer wind speeds were as high as 74 knots in the northwestern portion  of the eyewall (below).

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) image, with plots of Metop-A ASCAT winds [click to enlarge]

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) image, with plots of Metop-A ASCAT winds [click to enlarge]

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.

DMSP-17 SSMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1023 UTC [click to enlarge]

DMSP-17 SSMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1023 UTC [click to enlarge]

GMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1720 UTC [click to enlarge]

GMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1720 UTC [click to enlarge]

DMSP-18 SSMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 2034 UTC [click to enlarge]

DMSP-18 SSMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 2034 UTC [click to enlarge]

Categories: DMSP, GOES-16, Metop, Microwave, Satellite winds, Tropical cyclones