{"id":19492,"date":"2015-09-08T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19492"},"modified":"2015-09-09T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:25:28","slug":"tropical-storm-jimena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19492","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Jimena"},"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\/09\/150908_goes15_visible_Jimena_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/960x1280_AGOES15_B1_G15_VIS_JIMENA_2015251_214500.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 Visible (0.63 um) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 Visible (0.63 um) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-15 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the low-level circulation center (LLCC) of Tropical Storm Jimena becoming exposed as the tropical cyclone encountered increasing amounts of westerly deep-layer <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150908_goes15_ir_shear_Jimena_anim.gif.gif\"><strong>wind shear<\/strong><\/a>. Jimena had rapidly intensified to a Category 4 hurricane over the East Pacific Ocean in late August and early September (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/Jimena_track.gif\"><strong>path<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/Jimena_adt.gif\"><strong>ADT plot<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Before sunrise, Suomi NPP VIIRS imagery <em><strong>(below; click to enlarge)<\/strong><\/em> was useful to help locate the LLCC, as was noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150908_jimena_discussion.text\"><strong>discussion<\/strong><\/a> issued by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prh.noaa.gov\/cphc\/\"><strong>Central Pacific Hurricane Center<\/strong><\/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\/09\/150908_1146utc_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_ir_Jimena_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150908_1146utc_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_ir_Jimena_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1733 UTC <em><strong>(below; click to enlarge)<\/strong><\/em> showed a signature of significant rainfall rates <em>(orange to red color enhancement)<\/em> within the deep convection that remained well to the east of the LLCC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150908_1733utc_ssmis_mw_Jimena.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150908_1733utc_ssmis_mw_Jimena.gif\" alt=\"DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-15 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images (above; click image to play animation) showed the low-level circulation center (LLCC) of Tropical Storm Jimena becoming exposed as the tropical cyclone encountered increasing amounts of westerly deep-layer wind shear. Jimena had rapidly intensified to a Category 4 hurricane over the East Pacific Ocean in late August and early September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,43,25,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-goes-15","category-satellite-winds","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492","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=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19498,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions\/19498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}