{"id":19440,"date":"2015-08-30T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19440"},"modified":"2015-09-01T20:36:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T20:36:24","slug":"category-4-hurricanes-kilo-ignacio-and-jimena-in-the-central-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19440","title":{"rendered":"Category 4 Hurricanes Kilo, Ignacio, and Jimena in the Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/150829_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_Kilo_Ignacio_Jimena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150829_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_Kilo_Ignacio_Jimena.jpg\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image composite [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image composite [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A composite of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above; click to enlarge)<\/strong><\/em> showed Hurricanes Kilo, Ignacio, and Jimena in the central and eastern North Pacific Ocean on 29 August 2015. All three of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshws.php\"><strong>Category 4<\/strong><\/a> North Pacific hurricanes were located east of the International Dateline, which is the first such occurrence since reliable records began in the satellite era.<\/p>\n<p>An animation of GOES-15<em> (GOES-West)<\/em> Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the evolution of these 3 tropical cyclones during the 29-30 August period.<\/p>\n<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\/150829-30_goes15_ir_Kilo_Ignacio_Jimena_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/960x1280_AGOES15_B4_G15_IR_3_CAT4_2015242_000000.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/global2\/main.html\"><strong>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that all 3 storms were easily able to tap abundant moisture from the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).<\/p>\n<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\/150828-30_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/MIMIC_TPW_20150830_0000.png\" alt=\"MIMIC TPW product [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC TPW product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>A longer animation of the MIMIC TPW product covering the period 21 August to 01 September is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150821-0901_mimic_tpw_Pacific_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/mosaic20150829T000000.gif\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation]\" width=\"479\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A composite of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC RealEarth site (above; click to enlarge) showed Hurricanes Kilo, Ignacio, and Jimena in the central and eastern North Pacific Ocean on 29 August 2015. All three of these Category 4 North Pacific hurricanes were located east of the International Dateline, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,53,45,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-15","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440","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=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19469,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions\/19469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}