{"id":21849,"date":"2016-08-29T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=21849"},"modified":"2016-08-30T01:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:51:03","slug":"three-tropical-cyclones-in-the-atlantic-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21849","title":{"rendered":"Three Tropical Cyclones in the Atlantic Basin"},"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\/2016\/08\/WV_23Aug2016_2345_29Aug2016_1945anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/08\/GOES13_1945_29AUG2016_ANNOT.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 Water Vapor Infrared (6.5 \u00b5m) Imagery, 2345 UTC 23 August - 1945 UTC 29 August [click to animate]\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 Water Vapor Infrared (6.5 \u00b5m) Imagery, 2345 UTC 23 August &#8211; 1945 UTC 29 August [click to animate]<\/p><\/div>The hourly water vapor animation above over the Atlantic Basin shows the evolution of a strong tropical wave that moved through the Greater Antilles during the week of 23-29 August 2016. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21788\">GOES-14 viewed this system on 25 August and 28 August<\/a>). There are many areas of convection, including Hurricane Gaston, which storm enters the domain from the east. Gaston is no threat to land, however.<\/p>\n<p>Of more interest to the United States are Tropical Depression #8, a small system just southeast of Cape Hatteras, represented as a circular cluster of thunderstorms at the end of the animation, and Tropical Depression #9 near western Cuba. (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/08\/GOES13_1945_29AUG2016_ANNOT.GIF\">here<\/a> for an annotated water vapor imagery identifying the storms) Tropical Depression #9 has emerged from the system discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21788\">here<\/a>. Interests along the coast of North Carolina and Virginia should pay close attention to forecasts on Tropical Depression #8, and those on the Gulf Coast from Louisiana eastward should monitor Tropical Depression #9. For the latest information, see the webpages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water, below, for the 72 hours ending at 1800 UTC on 29 August (from <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/natl\/main.html\">this site<\/a>), shows that Tropical Depression #8 and Hurricane Gaston, are near regions of dry air that might influence their evolution. In contrast, Tropical Depression #9 is embedded within an atmosphere rich in moisture.<\/p>\n<p>The next two names for tropical cyclones in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutnames.shtml#atl\">Atlantic<\/a> are Hermine and Ian.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/08\/OLDMIMICTPW_72hrs_ending_18UTC_29August.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/08\/OLDMIMICTPW_72hrs_ending_18UTC_29August.gif\" alt=\"Total Precipitable Water, 1900 UTC 26 August - 1800 UTC 29 August 2016 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Total Precipitable Water, 1900 UTC 26 August &#8211; 1800 UTC 29 August 2016 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hourly water vapor animation above over the Atlantic Basin shows the evolution of a strong tropical wave that moved through the Greater Antilles during the week of 23-29 August 2016. (GOES-14 viewed this system on 25 August and 28 August). There are many areas of convection, including Hurricane Gaston, which storm enters the domain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":21859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,56,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-dmsp","category-goes-13","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849","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=21849"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21861,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions\/21861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}