{"id":15037,"date":"2014-02-25T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15037"},"modified":"2014-02-27T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:33:23","slug":"mesovortices-within-a-mid-latitude-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15037","title":{"rendered":"Mesovortices within a mid-latitude cyclone"},"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\/2014\/02\/140224_met10_vis_ir_UK_storm_mesovorts_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click to play animation)\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/140224_ME10_VIS_IR_UK_MESOVORTS_036_A.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Twitter follower @PedroCFernandez alerted us to an interesting case of mesovortices (<a title=\"original Spanish language blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cazatormentas.net\/index.php\/meteo-didica-topmenu-39-sp-10806\/52-conceptos-y-procesos-meteorolos\/3833-yvonne-una-borrasca-muy-curiosa-junto-a-las-islas-britanicas\"><strong>original Spanish language blog post<\/strong><\/a> | <a title=\"Google translate version\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=es&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cazatormentas.net%2Findex.php%2Fmeteo-didica-topmenu-39-sp-10806%2F52-conceptos-y-procesos-meteorolos%2F3833-yvonne-una-borrasca-muy-curiosa-junto-a-las-islas-britanicas\"><strong>Google translate version<\/strong><\/a>) which developed within the circulation of a strong mid-latitude cyclone over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean (moving toward the British Isles) on 24-25 February 2014. McIDAS images of <a title=\"EUMETSAT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eumetsat.int\/website\/home\/index.html\"><strong>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-10 daytime 0.75 \u00c2\u00b5m high resolution visible channel and night-time 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data <em><strong>(above; click to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the series of mesovortices that spun up along the &#8220;bent-back&#8221; occluded frontal boundary (<a title=\"NWS Ocean Prediction Center surface analysis maps\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/140224-25_opc_atlantic_surface_analysis_anim.gif\"><strong>surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>); this storm was producing hurricane force winds during the 12-18 UTC period on 24 February, according to the NWS Ocean Prediction Center. Mesovortex cloud-top IR brightness temperatures were around -40\u00c2\u00ba C <em>(green color enhancement),<\/em> indicating significant vertical development of the cloud structure associated with these features.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/140224_1800z_met10_vis_ir_UK_storm_mesovorts_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images at 18:00 UTC\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/140224_1800z_met10_vis_ir_UK_storm_mesovorts_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images at 18:00 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A comparison of the 18:00 UTC Meteosat-10 visible and IR images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed two well-developed mesovortices at that time: #1, located southwest of the storm center, and #2, located west of the storm center;\u00c2\u00a0 a new mesovortex #3 was just in the process of forming to the northwest of the storm center <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/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\/2014\/02\/140224_ME10_IR_COMPARE_UK_MESOVORTS_A.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel image at 18:00 UTC\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/140224_ME10_IR_COMPARE_UK_MESOVORTS_A.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel image at 18:00 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter follower @PedroCFernandez alerted us to an interesting case of mesovortices (original Spanish language blog post | Google translate version) which developed within the circulation of a strong mid-latitude cyclone over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean (moving toward the British Isles) on 24-25 February 2014. McIDAS images of EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 daytime 0.75 \u00c2\u00b5m high resolution visible [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037","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=15037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15043,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions\/15043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}