{"id":22071,"date":"2016-09-27T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T09:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=22071"},"modified":"2016-09-28T04:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T04:17:48","slug":"super-typhoon-megi-makes-landfall-on-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/22071","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Megi makes landfall on Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/160927_himawari8_visible_infrared_STY_Megi_Taiwan_landfall_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/480x1280_H8F_B313_HIM08_VIS_IR_MEGI_27SEP2016_2016270_225215_0002PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 0.64 \u00b5m Visible (top) and 10.4 \u00b5m Infrared Window (bottom) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 0.64 \u00b5m Visible (top) and 10.4 \u00b5m Infrared Window (bottom) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Super Typhoon Megi (20W) made landfall on the island of Taiwan as a Category 4 storm (<a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/satcon\/201620W.html\"><strong>CIMSS SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) on 27 September 2016, as seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above;<\/strong> also available as a 69 Mbyte<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/160927_himawari8_visible_infrared_STY_Megi_Taiwan_landfall_anim.gif\">animated GIF<\/a>). <\/strong><\/em>It is interesting to note the blossoming of cold cloud-top IR brightness temperatures of -80\u00ba C and colder <em>(violet color enhancement)<\/em> west of the island after landfall.<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tc\/2016_20W\/webManager\/mainpage.html\"><strong>MIMIC-TC<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that Megi was going through an eyewall replacement cycle around the time of landfall.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/160927_megi_mimic_tc_Taiwan_landfall.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/160927_0330utc_mimic_tc_Megi.jpg\" alt=\"MIMIC-TC product [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC-TC product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Typhoon Megi (20W) made landfall on the island of Taiwan as a Category 4 storm (CIMSS SATCON) on 27 September 2016, as seen on JMA Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images (above; also available as a 69 Mbyte animated GIF). It is interesting to note the blossoming of cold cloud-top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,56,62,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-dmsp","category-himawari-8","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071","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=22071"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22080,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions\/22080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}