{"id":38341,"date":"2020-09-17T21:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38341"},"modified":"2020-09-25T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:37:23","slug":"medicane-approaching-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38341","title":{"rendered":"Medicane approaching Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily VIIRS True-Color images over the central Mediterranean Sea, 14 – 19 September 2020 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

A Medicane (a portmanteau<\/em> of Mediterranean and Hurricane) has developed in the central Mediterranean Sea, and moved northeastward through the Ionian Sea towards Greece and Albania. Daily snapshots of VIIRS true-color imagery, above, from NASA Worldview<\/a>, show a slow increase in organization. (Previous CIMSS Blog Posts on Medicanes are here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.) This Medicane was given the name ‘Ianos’.<\/p>\n

There is an isolated region of small values of wind shear over this system (1800 UTC image<\/a> from 17 September, from this website<\/a>), as expected for a tropical storm.\u00a0 An image of hourly CMORPH precipitation values, below, show heavy precipitation associated with the storm as well.<\/p>\n

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CMORPH Hourly Precipitation ending 1700 UTC on 17 September 2020 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

The ASCAT instrument on Metop-B observed a very tight cyclonic circulation on 16 September, as shown below (imagery from this site<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Metop-B ASCAT winds, 16 September 2020 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) (below, from this site<\/a>) shows a compact swirl around the storm, with large values of TPW.<\/p>\n

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MIMIC Total Precipitable Water for the 24 hours ending 2000 UTC on 17 September 2020 (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

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NASA’s IMERG <\/a>product showed the heavy rain<\/a> that was associated with this storm as it moved towards Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Medicane (a portmanteau of Mediterranean and Hurricane) has developed in the central Mediterranean Sea, and moved northeastward through the Ionian Sea towards Greece and Albania. Daily snapshots of VIIRS true-color imagery, above, from NASA Worldview, show a slow increase in organization. (Previous CIMSS Blog Posts on Medicanes are here, here and here.) This Medicane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":38347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38341"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38477,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341\/revisions\/38477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}