{"id":25774,"date":"2017-10-14T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=25774"},"modified":"2017-10-16T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:42:42","slug":"hurricane-ophelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25774","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ophelia"},"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\/2017\/10\/171014_goes13_visible_infrared_Ophelia_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/958x638_EASTL_B14_G13_VIS_IR_OPHELIA_14OCT2017_2017287_151500_0002PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m, left) and Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m, right) images, with hourly surface reports (in metric units) plotted in yellow [click to animate]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m, left) and Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m, right) images, with hourly surface reports (in metric units) plotted in yellow [click to animate]<\/p><\/div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2017\/OPHELIA.shtml?\">Hurricane Ophelia<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philklotzbach\/status\/918213969973784576\">record-tying<\/a><\/strong> 10th consecutive Atlantic basin hurricane of the 2017 season &#8212; reached a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171014_Ophelia_satcon.gif\">satellite-estimated<\/a><\/strong> Category 3 intensity at 15 UTC on 14 October 2017. GOES-13 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed a well-defined circular eye as the storm moved well south of the Azores. The tweet below underscores the unusual nature of the intensity and location of Ophelia (which also occurred over <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171013_2235utc_sst_Ophelia.jpg\">unusually-cold waters<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ophelia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ophelia<\/a> has shattered the record for northeastern-most forming Cat 3 in the Atlantic and is the easternmost overall. League of its own. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sZrHap5z1f\">pic.twitter.com\/sZrHap5z1f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brenden Moses (@Cyclonebiskit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cyclonebiskit\/status\/919211356657680384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> also revealed a circular eye structure.<\/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\/10\/171014_0858utc_dmsp17_ssmis_microwave_Ophelia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171014_0858utc_dmsp17_ssmis_microwave_Ophelia.jpg\" alt=\"DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One factor that might have aided this increase of intensity was the recent passage of Ophelia through an environment of higher Maximum Potential Intensity (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1175\/1520-0469%281997%29054%3C2519%3ATMPIOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2\">reference<\/a><\/strong>), where maximum wind speed values of 100 knots resided <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\/10\/171013_1300utc_mpi_wind_speed_Ophelia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171013_1300utc_mpi_wind_speed_Ophelia.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Maximum Potential Instability wind speed plot from 13 October, with the track of Ophelia as of 18 UTC on 14 October [click to enlarge]\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximum Potential Instability wind speed plot from 13 October, with the track of Ophelia as of 18 UTC on 14 October [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Ophelia &#8212; the record-tying 10th consecutive Atlantic basin hurricane of the 2017 season &#8212; reached a satellite-estimated Category 3 intensity at 15 UTC on 14 October 2017. GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images (above) showed a well-defined circular eye as the storm moved well south of the Azores. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-goes-13","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25774","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=25774"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25791,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25774\/revisions\/25791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}