{"id":37691,"date":"2020-07-22T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=37691"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:48:06","slug":"hurricane-douglas-in-the-east-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37691","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Douglas in the East Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 \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-17 (GOES-West) <\/em>\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the formation of Hurricane Douglas<\/strong><\/a> — the first hurricane of the 2020 season in the East Pacific Ocean — on 22 July 2020. Douglas was the 4th latest formation of the first hurricane on record in this basin.<\/p>\n

===== 23 July Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 \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>Douglas intensified to a Category 3 storm during the nighttime hours — 1-minute GOES-17 Visible and Infrared images\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>during the first 4 hours of daylight on 23 July (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed mesovortices within the eye of the hurricane. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperature during this time period was -76.6\u00baC, associated with an overshooting top within the eyewall just north-northwest of the eye at 1701 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images at 1701 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) image viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed Hurricane Douglas at 1035 UTC, about 1.5 hours after it reached Category 3 intensity.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Later in the day, a toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed Douglas at 2233 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"NOAA-20<\/a>

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

===== 24 July Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 \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>A Mesoscale Domain Sector was once again positioned over Category 3 Hurricane Douglas at 1945 UTC on 24 July — 1-minute GOES-17 Visible and Infrared images are shown above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the formation of Hurricane Douglas — the first hurricane of the 2020 season in the East Pacific Ocean — on 22 July 2020. Douglas was the 4th latest formation of the first hurricane on record in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,78,53,45,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37691","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=37691"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37730,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37691\/revisions\/37730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}