{"id":3255,"date":"2009-08-17T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T14:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2009-08-17T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T14:11:15","slug":"hurricane-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/3255","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090817_bill_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-12 IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090817_bill_ir_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-12 IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-12 IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Hurricane Bill (NHC advisory archive)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2009\/BILL.shtml?\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bill<\/strong><\/a> became the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2009 \u00c2\u00a0 season\u00c2\u00a0 on <strong>17 August 2009<\/strong>. GOES-12 IR images from the <a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed a canopy of very cold cloud tops around the center of the hurricane. The CIMSS satellite-derived wind shear product indicated that the storm environment was characterized by low shear, allowing intensification to progress.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of a 10:15 UTC GOES-12 IR image with a DMSP SSM\/IS 85 GHz microwave image from a couple of hours earlier <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a well-organized banding structure beneath the central dense overcast of cold cloud tops.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090817_ir_mw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-12 IR image + DMSP SSM\/IS microwave image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/08\/090817_ir_mw_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-12 IR image + DMSP SSM\/IS microwave image\" width=\"480\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-12 IR image + SSM\/IS microwave image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill became the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2009 \u00c2\u00a0 season\u00c2\u00a0 on 17 August 2009. GOES-12 IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) displayed a canopy of very cold cloud tops around the center of the hurricane. The CIMSS satellite-derived wind shear product indicated that the storm environment was characterized by low shear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-12","category-poes","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","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=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}