{"id":30398,"date":"2018-10-23T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T23:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=30398"},"modified":"2018-10-24T03:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T03:07:16","slug":"west-pacific-typhoon-yutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/30398","title":{"rendered":"West Pacific Typhoon Yutu"},"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\/10\/181023_himawari8_infrared_Typhoon_Yutu_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/HIM08_IR_YUTU_23OCT2018_2018296_232944_HIMAWARI-8_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.4 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Rapid-scan <em>(2.5-minute interval)<\/em> Himawari-8 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the formation of a well-defined eye as Typhoon Yutu rapidly intensified from a Category 2 to a Category 4 storm\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_adt_Yutu.GIF\"><strong>ADT<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_satcon_Yutu.gif\"><strong>SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) east of Guam on 23 October 2018. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were -90\u00baC or colder <em>(yellow pixels embedded within violet-enhanced areas)<\/em> &#8212; which was several degrees colder than the -84\u00baC tropopause temperature on <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_PGUM_RAOBS.TEXT\"><strong> rawinsonde data<\/strong><\/a> at Guam <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_PGUM_RAOBS.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_PGUM_RAOBS.GIF\" alt=\"Plot of Guam rawinsonde data [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of Guam rawinsonde data [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>During this period of rapid intensification, Yutu was moving over <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_sst_Yutu.jpeg\"><strong>very warm water<\/strong><\/a> and through an environment of low (favorable) <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_himawari8_infrared_21utc_wind_shear_anim.gif\"><strong>deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; and satellite-derived winds from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of well-defined mid\/upper-level outflow channels to the northwest and southeast of the storm, which also aided the intensification process.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_himawari8_waterVapor_winds_Yutu_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181023_himawari8_waterVapor_winds_Yutu_anim.gif\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images, with mid\/upper-level satellite-derived winds [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Mid-level Water Vapor <em>(6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with mid\/upper-level satellite-derived winds [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid-scan (2.5-minute interval) Himawari-8 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the formation of a well-defined eye as Typhoon Yutu rapidly intensified from a Category 2 to a Category 4 storm\u00a0 (ADT | SATCON) east of Guam on 23 October 2018. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were -90\u00baC or colder (yellow pixels embedded within violet-enhanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398","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=30398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30406,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398\/revisions\/30406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}