{"id":37533,"date":"2020-07-10T21:59:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T21:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=37533"},"modified":"2020-07-11T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:06:46","slug":"tropical-storm-fay-makes-landfall-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37533","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Fay makes landfall in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Tropical Storm Fay<\/strong><\/a> as it moved northward and made landfall just northeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey (station identifier KACY) around 2100 UTC on 10 July 2020. The exposed low-level center was completely devoid of deep convection.<\/p>\n

GOES-16 Visible images with plots of Derived Motion Winds<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a few wind targets with speeds of 50 knots or higher (red barbs),<\/em> but those were located well east\/northeast of the storm center.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of Derived Motion Winds [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>In a sequence of GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Visible images (below)<\/strong>,<\/em> it could be seen that a tongue of dry air was wrapping into the southern and eastern portion of the circulation of Fay, moving directly over the low-level center (1201 UTC<\/strong><\/a> | 1501 UTC<\/strong><\/a> | 1801 UTC<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>When Fay formed on the previous day, a Sea Surface Temperature analysis from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that its center was located over the warm water of the Gulf Stream — but as it moved northward it quickly colder waters around 25\u00baC off the Delmarva Peninsula and New Jersey coasts.<\/p>\n

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Sea Surface Temperature analysis [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Fay was the earliest-forming 6th (F-named) storm on record for the Atlantic Basin — and was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in New Jersey since Irene in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (above) showed Tropical Storm Fay as it moved northward and made landfall just northeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey (station identifier KACY) around 2100 UTC on 10 July 2020. The exposed low-level center was completely devoid of deep convection. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533","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=37533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37540,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533\/revisions\/37540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}