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Medicane makes landfall in Tunisia

By Scott Bachmeier •

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images [click to play animation | MP4]

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images [click to play animation | MP4]

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm) images (above) showed a westward-moving medicane which developed a fairly distinct eye shortly before making landfall along the eastern coast of Tunisia on 22 November 2020.

A Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image displayed using RealEarth (below) provided a higher-resolution view of the medicane’s eye and convective banding at 1152 UTC.

Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image valid at 1152 UTC [click to enlarge]

Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image valid at 1152 UTC [click to enlarge]

A plot of surface observations for Monastir’s Habib Bourguiba International Airport DTMB (below) showed that winds gusted to 43 knots as the system made landfall.

Plot of surface observations for Monastir's Habib Bourguiba International Airport [click to enlarge]

Plot of surface observations for Monastir’s Habib Bourguiba International Airport [click to enlarge]

Categories: Meteosat, RealEarth, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images, Suomi NPP, Tropical cyclones, VIIRS