{"id":22863,"date":"2016-12-25T21:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T21:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=22863"},"modified":"2016-12-26T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:02:11","slug":"super-typhoon-nock-ten-strikes-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/22863","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Nock-Ten strikes the Philippines"},"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\/12\/161224-25_himawari8_infrared_Super_Typhoon_Nock-Ten_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/960x1280_H8F_B13_HIM08_IR_NOCK-TEN_25DEC2016_2016360_002210_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Rapid-scan (2.5-minute interval) 2-km resolution Himawari-8 Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (above; <\/strong>also available as a 173 Mbyte<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161224-25_himawari8_infrared_Super_Typhoon_Nock-Ten_anim.gif\">animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed Category 4 Super Typhoon Nock-Ten making landfall in the Philippines on 25 December 2016. Nock-Ten became the strongest typhoon on record (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161221-161225_Nock-Ten_satcon.gif\"><strong>SATCON<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161221_161225_Nock-Ten_adt.gif\"><strong>ADT<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>source<\/strong><\/a>) in the Philippines so late in the year:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Supertyphoon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nockten?src=hash\">#Nockten<\/a> is the strongest typhoon on record (since 1945) to make landfall in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Philippines?src=hash\">#Philippines<\/a> this late in the calendar year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jUzIUOg8hk\">pic.twitter.com\/jUzIUOg8hk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philklotzbach\/status\/813057074376556545\">December 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) image at 1724 UTC on 24 December <em><strong>(below; <\/strong>courtesy of William Straka, SSEC<strong>)<\/strong><\/em> was acquired just before the beginning of the Himawari-8 animations above; note the presence of cloud-top gravity waves propagating southeastward away from the eye of Nock-Ten, in addition to prominent larger-scale transverse banding farther out within the eastern semicircle of the storm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161224_1724utc_viirs_ir_Nock-Ten.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161224_1724utc_viirs_ir_Nock-Ten.png\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid-scan (2.5-minute interval) 2-km resolution Himawari-8 Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images (above; also available as a 173 Mbyte animated GIF) showed Category 4 Super Typhoon Nock-Ten making landfall in the Philippines on 25 December 2016. Nock-Ten became the strongest typhoon on record (SATCON | ADT | source) in the Philippines so late in the year: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22863","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=22863"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22871,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22863\/revisions\/22871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}