{"id":35722,"date":"2020-02-15T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=35722"},"modified":"2020-02-18T22:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:17:19","slug":"hurricane-force-lows-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/35722","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Force lows in the North Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of hourly surface wind barbs and gusts (in knots) [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the circulations associated with a pair of Hurricane Force low (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>) during the 13-15 February 2020 period. At the limb of the GOES-16 Full Disk view, plots of hourly surface wind revealed gusts in the 70-80 knots range at stations in Iceland — including Keflavik International Airport<\/strong><\/a> near Reykjavik and Akurnes<\/strong><\/a> along the southeast coast. One site north of Reykjavik recorded a wind gust of 138 knots<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sequences of VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) and True Color RGB images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP during those same days as viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> are shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Sequences<\/a>

Sequence of VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>

\"Sequence<\/a>

Sequence of VIIRS True Color RGB images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-11 Water Vapor (6.25 \u00b5m) images during the 14-16 February period are shown below. Named “Storm Dennis” by the UK Met Office, the system brought high winds to much of Europe.<\/p>\n

\"Meteosat-11<\/a>

Meteosat-11 Water Vapor (6.25 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly wind barbs and gusts (in knots) [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Additional information about this event is available on the Satellite Liaison Blog.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the circulations associated with a pair of Hurricane Force low (surface analyses) during the 13-15 February 2020 period. At the limb of the GOES-16 Full Disk view, plots of hourly surface wind revealed gusts in the 70-80 knots range at stations in Iceland — including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,23,78,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-meteosat","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722","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=35722"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35736,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722\/revisions\/35736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}