{"id":19675,"date":"2015-10-02T22:14:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19675"},"modified":"2015-10-05T19:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:09:55","slug":"moisture-moves-inland-over-the-carolinas-as-hurricane-joaquin-moves-through-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19675","title":{"rendered":"Moisture moves inland over the Carolinas as Hurricane Joaquin moves through the Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"METOP<\/a>

METOP ASCAT Scatterometer Winds, 1356 UTC 2 October and GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) imagery<\/strong> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Hurricane Joaquin moved slowly through the eastern Bahamas on 1 and 2 October 2015. ASCAT data from 1356 UTC, above, shows rain-flagged values near 90 knots not far from the storm center (Joaquin is a potent Category 4 Hurricane; its strongest winds are confined to within about 50 miles of the center<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"MIMIC<\/a>

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water for the 72 hours ending 1900 UTC on 2 October<\/strong> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Joaquin is embedded within a very moisture-rich environment, and that tropical moisture will move inland over the Carolinas and surrounding states over the weekend and produce heavy rains. The animation of MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/a>, above, shows a corridor of very high total precipitable water just offshore of the Carolinas at the end of the animation, ready to shift inland.<\/p>\n

Water Vapor Imagery, below, shows a strong trough over the northern Gulf of Mexico. This trough is serving to move Joaquin out of the Bahamas, and it will also serve as a potent precipitation producer on the East Coast. Percent-of-Normal plots<\/a> from NESDIS’s Blended Precipitable Water product<\/a> shows a large region of nearly 200% of normal over South Carolina, and greater than 200% of normal over North Carolina and regions north and east. Flood Watches have been issued from northeast Georgia to southern New Jersey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 Water Vapor Infrared Imagery (6.5 \u00b5m) and NESDIS Percent-of-Normal Blended Total Precipitable Water Product, 1745 UTC 2 October 2015<\/strong> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>For the latest information on Joaquin, consult the National Hurricane Center<\/a>. Additional information is available at the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a> site, and in a previous Blog Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Joaquin moved slowly through the eastern Bahamas on 1 and 2 October 2015. ASCAT data from 1356 UTC, above, shows rain-flagged values near 90 knots not far from the storm center (Joaquin is a potent Category 4 Hurricane; its strongest winds are confined to within about 50 miles of the center). Joaquin is embedded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":19683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,47,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-other-satellites","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675","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=19675"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19713,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675\/revisions\/19713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}