{"id":19402,"date":"2015-08-28T14:06:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19402"},"modified":"2015-08-28T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T20:42:59","slug":"hurricane-katrina-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19402","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Katrina in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/960x1280_AGOES12_B4_KATRINAIR4_animated_2005234_001500_78_2005242_234500_78_IR4AVHRR4.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/960x1280_AGOES12_B4_KATRINAIR4_2005240_154500.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-12 10.7 \u00b5m IR images [click to play mp4 animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>GOES-12 10.7 \u00b5m IR images<\/strong> [click to play mp4 animation]<\/p><\/div>August 28 2015 is the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina achieving Category 5 status (on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshws.php\">Saffir-Simpson Scale<\/a>) in the central Gulf of Mexico. The mp4 animation above (available <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/960x1280_AGOES12_B4_KATRINAIR4_animated_2005234_001500_78_2005242_234500_78_IR4AVHRR4.gif\">here<\/a> as a 490 megabyte animated gif, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y5yFo3ZyvHI\">YouTube<\/a>) shows the evolution of Katrina from a thunderstorm cluster in the Bahamas to a weak hurricane off the west coast of Florida to a Category 5 Hurricane in the central Gulf before weakening somewhat at landfall along the central Gulf coast. (The archive of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\">National Hurricane Center<\/a> advisories is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2005\/KATRINA.shtml?\">here<\/a>. The post-storm write-up is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/data\/tcr\/AL122005_Katrina.pdf\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/960x1280_AGOES12_B4_KATRINAIR4_2005240_040200_061500toggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/960x1280_AGOES12_B4_KATRINAIR4_2005240_040200_061500toggle.gif\" alt=\"GOES-12 10.7 \u00b5m IR images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>GOES-12 10.7 \u00b5m IR images<\/strong> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GOES-12 was in service as GOES-East during Katrina&#8217;s life, and as a GOES I-M satellite it lacked batteries to allow imaging through eclipse, which occurs as the satellite passes through the Earth&#8217;s shadow (solar panels in shadow do not provide power) in the weeks surrounding the Equinoxes. The toggle above from 28 August 2005 shows the last pre-eclipse image (0402 UTC) and the first post-eclipse image (0615 UTC); considerable organization of the storm has occurred in those two hours! GOES satellites from GOES-13 on have sufficient battery capacity to provide imagery through eclipse periods (for example, see this <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/09\/080913_g12_g13_ir_anim.gif\">GOES-13 vs GOES-12 comparison<\/a> during the landfall of Hurricane Ike along the Texas coast in 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Katrina was featured in the CIMSS GOES Gallery back in 2005 (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/050829\/050829.html\">Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28 2015 is the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina achieving Category 5 status (on the Saffir-Simpson Scale) in the central Gulf of Mexico. The mp4 animation above (available here as a 490 megabyte animated gif, and on YouTube) shows the evolution of Katrina from a thunderstorm cluster in the Bahamas to a weak hurricane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":19405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-12","category-historical","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402","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=19402"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19417,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions\/19417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}