{"id":25427,"date":"2017-09-24T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=25427"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:53:47","slug":"maria-tropical-storm-watch-for-the-outer-banks-of-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25427","title":{"rendered":"Maria: Tropical Storm Watch for the Outer Banks of North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/170924_maria_track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/170924_maria_track.jpg\" alt=\"Track of Hurricane Maria [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Track of Hurricane Maria [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Maria was downgraded to a Category 2 storm at 12 UTC on 24 September 2017 <strong><em>(above),<\/em><\/strong> when it was located about halfway between Miami and Bermuda.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI%20Fact%20Sheet%20Band%202.pdf\">0.64 \u00b5m<\/a><\/strong>) and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI_Band_13_FS_CLEAN_LW_IR_FINAL.pdf\">10.3 \u00b5m<\/a><\/strong>) images <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed a close-up view of the eye region of Maria during the daylight hours.<\/p>\n<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\/2017\/09\/170924_goes16_visible_infrared_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_AGOES16_B213_G16_VIS_IR_MARIA_MESO_24SEP2017_2017267_140031_0002PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, right) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" 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 [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Due to the large size of the radius of Tropical Storm force winds, a Tropical Storm Watch was issued late in the day for the Outer Banks and adjacent inland areas of North Carolina <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/170924_5pm_nhc_advisory.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/170924_5pm_nhc_advisory.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NHC advisory<\/p><\/div>\n<p>UPDATE: 12 hours later, much of the Tropical Storm Watch was upgraded to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/170925_5am_nhc_advisory.png\">Tropical Storm Warning<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing * Hurricane Maria was downgraded to a Category 2 storm at 12 UTC on 24 September 2017 (above), when it was located about halfway between Miami and Bermuda. GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (below) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25427","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\/25427","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=25427"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25456,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427\/revisions\/25456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}