{"id":23112,"date":"2017-02-23T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23112"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:58:21","slug":"storm-doris-affects-the-british-isles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23112","title":{"rendered":"Storm “Doris” affects the British Isles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Meteosat-10<\/a>

Meteosat-10 Water Vapor (6.25 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface wind gusts in knots [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Storm “Doris” affected the British Isles on 23 February 2017, producing strong winds and heavy rainfall. The mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensified from a central pressure of 1004 hPa at 12 UTC on 22 February to 972 hPa at 12 UTC on 23 February (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>) . EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-10 Water Vapor (6.25 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> exhibited the “scorpion tail” signature of a sting jet (Monthly Weather Review<\/strong><\/a> | Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>), and surface wind gusts included 58 knots at Dublin<\/strong><\/a>, 64 knots at Wittering<\/strong><\/a> and 69 knots at Valley<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The corresponding daylight Meteosat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed better detail of the various cloud structures associated with the storm.<\/p>\n

\"Meteosat-10<\/a>

Meteosat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface wind gusts in knots [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>True-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from Terra\/Aqua MODIS and Suomi NPP VIIRS visualized using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> are shown below. EUMETSAT posted a natural-color RGB animation here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Terra<\/a>

Terra MODIS (1039 UTC), Aqua MODIS (1226 UTC) and Suomi NPP VIIRS (1248 UTC) true-color RGB images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Storm “Doris” affected the British Isles on 23 February 2017, producing strong winds and heavy rainfall. The mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensified from a central pressure of 1004 hPa at 12 UTC on 22 February to 972 hPa at 12 UTC on 23 February (surface analyses) . EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Water Vapor (6.25 \u00b5m) images (above) exhibited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,23,12,53,45,49,71,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-meteosat","category-modis","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-terra","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112","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=23112"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23125,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112\/revisions\/23125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}