{"id":11467,"date":"2012-09-26T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2012-09-27T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:05:00","slug":"intense-occluding-cyclone-in-the-gulf-of-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11467","title":{"rendered":"Intense cyclone in the Gulf of Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/120926_1124z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_ir_AK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/120926_1124z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_ir_AK_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A cyclone rapidly intensified <em>(deepening 42 mb in 24 hours, and 26 mb in 12 hours)<\/em> in the Gulf of Alaska on <a title=\"26 September 2012 surface analysis\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/120926_18z_surface_analysis.gif\"><strong>26 September 2012<\/strong><\/a>, and was expected to produce winds up to hurricane force. An AWIPS image comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images at 11:24 UTC <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed great detail to the cloud features as the storm began to exhibit a classic &#8220;cusp&#8221; signature as rapid intensification was underway (<a title=\"VIIRS IR image with surface analysis overlay\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/120926_12z_viirs_ir_surface_analysis_anim.gif\"><strong>IR image with surface analysis overlay<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data<em><strong> (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> portrayed the evolution of the storm from 04:00 UTC to 23:45 UTC.<\/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\/09\/120926_g15_wv_ak_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/120926_G15_WV_AK_60.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cyclone rapidly intensified (deepening 42 mb in 24 hours, and 26 mb in 12 hours) in the Gulf of Alaska on 26 September 2012, and was expected to produce winds up to hurricane force. An AWIPS image comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images at 11:24 [&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":[43,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-15","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","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=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11478,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}