{"id":10422,"date":"2012-05-22T22:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2012-05-23T01:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T01:30:35","slug":"large-upper-level-low-approaches-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10422","title":{"rendered":"Large upper-level low approaches Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120521-22_g15_wv_wvwinds_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor images + Water vapor winds (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120521-22_G15_WV_WVWINDS_16.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor images + Water vapor winds (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor images + Water vapor winds (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data with overlays of hourly water vapor atmospheric motion vectors <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the large cyclonic circulation of an upper-level low that was moving westward toward the Hawaiian Islands on <strong>21 May &#8211; 22 May 2012<\/strong>. The warm water vapor brightness temperatures <em>(yellow color enhancement)<\/em> exhibited within the core of the low indicated that the air in the middle to upper troposphere was rather dry.<\/p>\n<p>AWIPS images of the <a title=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/global2\/main.html\"><strong>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the upper-level low was not effectively tapping into the band\u00c2\u00a0of high moisture along the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Since there was no surface feature associated with this upper-level low, the only significant impacts to Hawaii were strong winds at the higher elevations &#8212; a <a title=\"Wind Advisory\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120522_phnl_wind_advisory.text\"><strong>wind advisory<\/strong><\/a> was issued for the summits above 6000-8000 feet.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120521-22_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/MIMIC_TPW_20120522_0000.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data with overlays of hourly water vapor atmospheric motion vectors (above; click image to play animation) revealed the large cyclonic circulation of an upper-level low that was moving westward toward the Hawaiian Islands on 21 May &#8211; 22 May 2012. The warm water vapor brightness temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-15"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10426,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}