{"id":11657,"date":"2012-10-26T20:59:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T20:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2012-10-27T03:15:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T03:15:59","slug":"hurricane-sandy-moves-north-of-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11657","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Sandy moves north of the Bahamas"},"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\/SandyVIS_IR4_26Octloop17-18.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-14 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images and 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m infrared channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/SandyVIS_IR4_26Oct_1759.gif\" alt=\"GOES-14 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images and 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m infrared channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-14 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images and 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m infrared channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/srsor\/GOES-14_SRSOR.html\">SRSO-R<\/a> operations continue today with GOES-14, allowing for very high temporal resolution imaging of a sheared Hurricane Sandy as it moves away from the Bahamas. The exposed low-level circulation is apparent in the imagery, as well as strong convection north and west of the low-level center. A closer view of the exposed low-level circulation can be seen in this <a title=\"QuickTime movie of GOES-14 SRSO visible imagery\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/srsor\/1080x1920_GOES_B1_RSRSO_SANDY_animated_2012300_191600_182_2012300_220200_182_X.mov\">QuickTime movie<\/a> of GOES-14 visible imagery.<\/p>\n<p>A map of deep layer wind shear, below, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a> site, shows strong shear associated with an upper level low pressure system south and west of Sandy.<\/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\/Sandywg8shr_26Oct_18z.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Wind Shear, 1800 UTC 26 October\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/Sandywg8shr_26Oct_18z.gif\" alt=\"Wind Shear, 1800 UTC 26 October\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind Shear, 1800 UTC 26 October<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the exposed low-level circulation center of Sandy at 18:26 UTC <em>(2:26 PM local time),<\/em> and the deep convection to the north which exhibited cloud top IR brightness temperatures as cold as -87 C<em> (violet color enhancement).<\/em><\/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\/121026_1826z_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/10\/121026_1826z_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_ir_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRSO-R operations continue today with GOES-14, allowing for very high temporal resolution imaging of a sheared Hurricane Sandy as it moves away from the Bahamas. The exposed low-level circulation is apparent in the imagery, as well as strong convection north and west of the low-level center. A closer view of the exposed low-level circulation can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-14","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11666,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions\/11666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}