{"id":27948,"date":"2018-05-09T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=27948"},"modified":"2018-05-10T02:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T02:24:05","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/27948","title":{"rendered":"Subtropical cyclone formation off the coast of Chile"},"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\/2018\/05\/180506_180509_goes16_infrared_Chile_STS_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/G16_IR_STS_CHILE_08MAY2018_960x1280_B13_2018127_084538_0001PANEL_00219.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window<em> (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface weather [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A very unusual subtropical cyclone formed off the coast of Chile during the 07-08 May 2018 period (<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/hurricane\/news\/2018-05-08-subtropical-cyclone-chile\"><strong>Weather Channel<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/2018-05-08-subtropical-cyclone-chile\"><strong>Weather Underground<\/strong><\/a>). The system transitioned from a typical cold core baroclinic mid-latitude cyclone to a shallow warm core cyclone with some deep convection around the center of circulation. GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the evolution from 06 May to 09 May. The surface report plotted in the lower right corner of the images is Concepci\u00f3n, Chile.<\/p>\n<p>A Suomi NPP VIIRS True-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong> <\/em>depicted the circulation once it had drifted to a position northwest of Santiago, Chile at 1839 UTC on 08 May.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180508_1839utc_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180508_1839utc_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor.jpeg\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Ttue-color RGB image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Ttue-color RGB image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The hourly <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=samer2&amp;timespan=48hrs&amp;anim=html5\"><strong>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> initially showed a long ribbon of subtropical moisture which was being transported ahead of a cold front into the baroclinic low on 05 May &#8212; then during the transition to a subtropical low, a small pocket of modest TPW migrated slowly northward\u00a0 with the surface circulation.<\/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\/2018\/05\/180505_180509_mimic_tpw_Chile_STS_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/comp20180505.000000_tpw.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180505_180509_mimic_tpw_Chile_STS_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very unusual subtropical cyclone formed off the coast of Chile during the 07-08 May 2018 period (Weather Channel | Weather Underground). The system transitioned from a typical cold core baroclinic mid-latitude cyclone to a shallow warm core cyclone with some deep convection around the center of circulation. GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":27955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,53,45,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948","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=27948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27954,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions\/27954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}