{"id":21675,"date":"2016-08-04T14:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=21675"},"modified":"2016-08-09T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T12:58:58","slug":"hurricane-earl-makes-landfall-in-belize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21675","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Earl makes landfall in Belize"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-14<\/a>

GOES-14 10.7 \u00b5m Infrared Window images, hourly from 0115 through 1015 UTC on 4 August 2016 [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n

Hurricane Earl made landfall around 0600 UTC<\/a> on 4 August in Belize. The hourly animation from GOES-14, above, shows a rapid warming of the coldest cloud tops over Earl after landfall, as commonly happens. GOES-14 is out of storage<\/a> to support SRSO-R Operations beginning Tuesday August 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The GOES-14 image at landfall<\/a> shows coldest cloud tops on the north side of the storm. A timely Metop-A overpass<\/a> (times available at this site<\/a>) from several hours before landfall provided ASCAT winds, below, that also show strongest winds to the north side of this storm.<\/p>\n

\"Metop-A<\/a>

Metop-A ASCAT Scatterometer Winds, 0238 UTC 4 August 2016 [click to click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Although the strong winds of Earl have diminished now that the storm is over land, Total Precipitable Water values, below, (showing MIRS data<\/a>, available at this site<\/a>) remain high and flooding continues to be a threat. Earl is forecast to move along the southern tip of the Bay Campeche starting tomorrow. For more details see the National Hurricane Center website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Morphed<\/a>

Morphed MIRS Total Precipitable Water, 0600 UTC on 4 August 2016 [click to click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Three geostationary satellites viewed Earl as it moved across the southern Yucatan peninsula. GOES-15, GOES-14 and GOES-13 visible imagery from near 1200 UTC is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-15,<\/a>

GOES-15, GOES-14, GOES-13 (left, center,right) Visible Imagery of Earl over Belize and Mexico, ~1200 UTC on 4 August 2016 [click to click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Two Geostationary Satellites viewing a system approximately equidistant from both satellites allowed for stereoscopic imagery to be created, below.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 and GOES-14 Visible Imagery (0.62 \u00b5m), 1415 – 2115 UTC on 4 August 2016 [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Earl made landfall around 0600 UTC on 4 August in Belize. The hourly animation from GOES-14, above, shows a rapid warming of the coldest cloud tops over Earl after landfall, as commonly happens. GOES-14 is out of storage to support SRSO-R Operations beginning Tuesday August 9. The GOES-14 image at landfall shows coldest cloud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":21678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40,43,58,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-goes-14","category-goes-15","category-metop","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675","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=21675"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21694,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675\/revisions\/21694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}