{"id":23591,"date":"2017-03-28T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2017-04-01T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:03:23","slug":"cyclone-debbie-makes-landfall-in-queensland-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23591","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Debbie makes landfall in Queensland, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Cyclone Debbie formed in the Coral Sea on 22 March 2017, and eventually intensified to a Category 3 storm (ADT<\/strong><\/a> | SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) as it moved southward toward Australia. Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the eye of Debbie as it was making landfall in Queensland, near Prosperpine (YBPN<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Landsat-8<\/a>

Landsat-8 false-color, with Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The Landsat-8 satellite made an overpass of the eye at 2358 UTC (above),<\/strong><\/em> as a large convective burst had developed within the northern semicircle of the eyewall (which was also evident in the corresponding Himawari-8 Visible and Infrared Window images viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) and GMI Microwave (85 GHZ) Images around 1430 UTC on 27 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Debbie was undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle as the storm center approached the coast — this was evident in Microwave (85 GHz) images from GMI at 1425 (above)<\/strong><\/em> and SSMIS at 2017 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site.<\/p>\n

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) and DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) images around 2017 UTC on 27 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product (below; <\/strong>also available as an MP4 animation<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed copious tropical moisture associated with Cyclone Debbie, which led to rainfall accumulations as high as 780 mm (30.7 inches) — with rainfall rates up to 200 mm (7.9 inches) per hour — and record flooding along the coast from Brisbane to Lismore.<\/p>\n

\"MIMIC<\/a>

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cyclone Debbie formed in the Coral Sea on 22 March 2017, and eventually intensified to a Category 3 storm (ADT | SATCON) as it moved southward toward Australia. Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the eye of Debbie as it was making landfall in Queensland, near Prosperpine (YBPN). The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16,62,55,53,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-himawari-8","category-landsat","category-real-earth","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591","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=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23615,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions\/23615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}