{"id":33120,"date":"2019-05-03T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=33120"},"modified":"2019-05-13T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:13:06","slug":"cyclone-fani-makes-landfall-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/33120","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Fani makes landfall in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EUMETSAT-8<\/a>

EUMETSAT Meteosat-8 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-8 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the intensification of Cyclone Fani<\/strong><\/a> to a high-end Category 4 storm on 02 May 2019 (ADT<\/strong><\/a> | SATCON<\/strong><\/a> | PGTW advisory<\/strong><\/a>), before eventually making landfall in northeastern India at 0230 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 03 May. During its life cycle<\/strong><\/a>, Fani moved over warm sea surface temperature<\/strong><\/a> values of 29-30\u00baC — and deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> of only 5-10 knots<\/strong><\/a> on 02 May provided an environment favorable for rapid intensification.<\/p>\n

Once inland, Fani was in the process of rapidly weakening to a Category 1 storm as it passed over Bhabaneswar (VEBS), and surface wind gusts to 75 knots were reported at that site (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Time<\/a>

Time series plot of surface observations from Bhabaneswar, India [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP as viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed snapshots of Fani from 19 UTC on 01 May (over the Bay of Bengal) to 07 UTC on 03 May (after landfall).<\/p>\n

\"Sequence<\/a>

Sequence of NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP on 02 May (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed Fani shortly after it had reached Category 4 intensity.<\/p>\n

\"VIIRS<\/a>

VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>

\"DMSP-17<\/a>

DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz)<\/em> image at 1230 UTC + Meteosat-8 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> image at 1300 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between a DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave image at 1230 UTC and a Meteosat-8 Infrared Window image at 1300 UTC\u00a0 from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the eye and totally closed eyewall of Fani when it was at its peak intensity on 02 May. However, the MIMIC TC<\/strong><\/a> product (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the eastern portion of the eyewall started to erode as Fani approached the coast and began to undergo an eyewall replacement cycle.<\/p>\n

\"MIMIC<\/a>

MIMIC TC morphed microwave product, 01-02 May [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>On 30 April, VIIRS DayNight Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images (below<\/strong>, courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS)<\/em> revealed widespread mesospheric airglow waves (reference<\/strong><\/a>) within the western semicircle of the storm, along with numerous bright lightning streaks associated with convection south of the storm center.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images at 1939 UTC on 30 April [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>

\"NOAA-20<\/a>

NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images at 2029 UTC on 30 April [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EUMETSAT Meteosat-8 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the intensification of Cyclone Fani to a high-end Category 4 storm on 02 May 2019 (ADT | SATCON | PGTW advisory), before eventually making landfall in northeastern India at 0230 UTC on 03 May. During its life cycle, Fani moved over warm sea surface temperature values […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,23,79,78,53,45,25,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-meteosat","category-microwave","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-satellite-winds","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33120","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=33120"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33215,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33120\/revisions\/33215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}