{"id":25390,"date":"2017-09-21T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=25390"},"modified":"2017-09-24T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T00:45:08","slug":"the-eye-of-maria-north-of-hispaniola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25390","title":{"rendered":"The Eye of Maria north of Hispaniola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-25390-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"480\" loop autoplay preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/G16_ABI13_Maria-20170921_Start_0849anim.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/G16_ABI13_Maria-20170921_Start_0849anim.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/G16_ABI13_Maria-20170921_Start_0849anim.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Maria presented a very interesting eye structure during the course of the day on 21 September 2017, as shown in the mp4 animation above (also available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E_BwZXYGv3M&amp;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube video<\/a>). \u00a0The animation shows 10.3 \u00b5m\u00a0imagery every 2 minutes from 0849 UTC through 2122 UTC on 21 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Pokrandt, at the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, created a similar animation using the 0.64 \u00b5m <a href=\"http:\/\/sysadm.aos.wisc.edu\/~poker\/20170921-Maria-vis.mp4\">Visible channel<\/a> on GOES-16.<\/p>\n<p>30-second interval (using overlapping 1-minute interval <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\">Mesoscale Sector<\/a>) GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images covering the 6-hour period from 1031-1631 UTC are shown below. During this time, Maria re-intensified to a Category 3 hurricane, with the eye centered just off the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic.<\/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\/2017\/09\/170921_goes16_visible_infrared_mesoscale_sector_Maria_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/958x638_GOES16A_B213_G16_VIS_IR_MESO_MARIA_PR_21SEP2017_2017264_125000_0002PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, right) images at 30-second intervals (Click to animate)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, right) images at 30-second intervals (Click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For more information on Maria, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\">National Hurricane Center <\/a>website. \u00a0The CIMSS <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">Tropical Weather Website<\/a> has information as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing Hurricane Maria presented a very interesting eye structure during the course of the day on 21 September 2017, as shown in the mp4 animation above (also available as a YouTube video). \u00a0The animation shows 10.3 \u00b5m\u00a0imagery every 2 minutes from 0849 UTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":25399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390","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=25390"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25425,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390\/revisions\/25425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}