{"id":30510,"date":"2018-10-31T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=30510"},"modified":"2018-11-01T02:32:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:32:37","slug":"extratropical-transition-of-hurricane-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/30510","title":{"rendered":"Extratropical transition of Hurricane Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181031_goes16_waterVapor_Hurricane_Oscar_ET_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/G16_WV9_ATLANIC_31OCT2018_2018304_190036_GOES-16_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"Sequence of GOES-16 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m), Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sequence of GOES-16 Low-level <em>(7.3 \u00b5m),<\/em> Mid-level<em> (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Upper-level <em>(6.2 \u00b5m)<\/em> Water Vapor images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Low-level (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band10.pdf\"><strong>7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Mid-level (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band09.pdf\"><strong>6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Upper-level (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band08.pdf\"><strong>6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Water Vapor images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the transition of Category 1 Hurricane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2018\/OSCAR.shtml?\"><strong>Oscar<\/strong><\/a> to a hurricane-force extratropical storm over the western Atlantic Ocean on 31 October 2018. The very sharp moisture gradient that developed along the western and northern edges highlighted the &#8220;&#8221;limiting streamline&#8221; of airflow through the cyclone &#8212; and a remarkably warm\/dry signature<em> (yellow to orange enhancement)<\/em> was seen near the storm center late in the period.<\/p>\n<p>A closer view of the GOES-16 Water Vapor imagery using AWIPS is shown below, which includes plots of buoy\/ship reports and surface analyses.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/181031_goes16_waterVapor_Oscar_ET_awips_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/oscar_wv9_2-20181031_190036.png\" alt=\"Sequence of GOES-16 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m), Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"639\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sequence of GOES-16 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m), Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m), Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images (above) showed the transition of Category 1 Hurricane Oscar to a hurricane-force extratropical storm over the western Atlantic Ocean on 31 October 2018. The very sharp moisture gradient that developed along the western and northern edges highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30510","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\/30510","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=30510"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30517,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30510\/revisions\/30517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}