{"id":11640,"date":"2012-10-24T20:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2012-10-24T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T21:48:34","slug":"hurricane-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11640","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Sandy"},"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\/10\/121024_g13_ir_sandy_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/121024_G13_IR_SANDY_15.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hurricane Sandy became the tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone season on <strong>24 October 2012<\/strong>. McIDAS images of GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the fairly rapid formation of an eye as the storm approached the eastern portion of the island of Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>A 15:21 UTC TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) 85 GHz brightness temperature image from the <a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> suggested that a closed eyewall was nearly formed complete by that time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/121024_1521z_tmi_mw_sandy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TRMM Microwave Imagery (TMI) 85 GHz brightness temperature image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/121024_1521z_tmi_mw_sandy.jpg\" alt=\"TRMM Microwave Imagery (TMI) 85 GHz brightness temperature image\" width=\"480\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">TRMM Microwave Imagery (TMI) 85 GHz brightness temperature image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 0.86 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the eye region of Hurricane Sandy after the center of the storm was passing over Jamaica.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/121024_poes_avhrr_vis_ir_sandy_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"POES AVHRR 0.86 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/121024_poes_avhrr_vis_ir_sandy_anim.gif\" alt=\"POES AVHRR 0.86 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">POES AVHRR 0.86 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Sandy became the tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone season on 24 October 2012. McIDAS images of GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed the fairly rapid formation of an eye as the storm approached the eastern portion of the island of Jamaica. A 15:21 UTC [&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":[22,11,47,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-goes-13","category-other-satellites","category-poes","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640","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=11640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11642,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}