{"id":15891,"date":"2014-06-13T02:59:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T02:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15891"},"modified":"2014-06-15T03:59:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T03:59:25","slug":"hurricane-cristina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15891","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Cristina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/140612_15z_cristina_adt.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/140612_15z_cristina_adt.gif\" alt=\"Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) time series plot\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) time series plot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A tire series plot of the CIMSS <a title=\"Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT)\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/adt\/info.html\"><strong>Advanced Dvorak Technique<\/strong><\/a><em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that <a title=\"Hurricane Cristina (NHC discussion archivve)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2014\/CRISTINA.shtml?\"><strong>Hurricane Cristina<\/strong><\/a> experienced a period of very rapid intensification during the day on 12 June 2014. Hurricane Cristina reached Category 4 status, making this the first time in the satellite era that there have been two Category 4 storms by the month of June in the East Pacific basin (the first this year was <a title=\"Hurricane Amanda\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15764\"><strong>Hurricane Amanda<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel data<em><strong> (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the rapid formation of the well-defined eye on 12 June.<\/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\/2014\/06\/140611-13_goes15_ir_cristina_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/140611-13_GOES15_IR_CRISTINA_073.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel images (click to pla animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel images (click to pla animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An SSMIS-18 satellite 85 GHz microwave 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> showed the well-defined eyewall at 14:33 UTC on 12 June.<\/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\/06\/140612_1433z_ssmis_mw_cristina.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/140612_1433z_ssmis_mw_cristina.gif\" alt=\"SSMIS-18 85 GHz microwave image\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SSMIS-18 85 GHz microwave image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>About 3 hours later, an overpass of a Metop satellite provided ASCAT surface scatterometer winds <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\/06\/140612_1715z_goes15_ir_ascat_winds_cristina_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/06\/140612_1715z_goes15_ir_ascat_winds_cristina_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR image with ASCAT surface scatterometer winds\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR image with ASCAT surface scatterometer winds<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tire series plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak Technique (above) showed that Hurricane Cristina experienced a period of very rapid intensification during the day on 12 June 2014. Hurricane Cristina reached Category 4 status, making this the first time in the satellite era that there have been two Category 4 storms by the month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-15","category-other-satellites","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891","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=15891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15898,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891\/revisions\/15898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}