{"id":38892,"date":"2020-11-10T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38892"},"modified":"2020-11-14T21:39:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:39:24","slug":"tropical-storm-eta-over-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38892","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Eta over the Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> images at 0734 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) and Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images at 0734 UTC (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed Tropical Storm Eta over the Gulf of Mexico (northwest of Cuba) on 10 November 2020. A large convective burst was seen southeast of the storm center, with concentric cloud-top gravity waves propagating radially outward from its lightning-illuminated core (intense lightning activity was causing the cluster of bright pixels on the Day\/Night Band image).<\/p>\n

1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0\u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>),\u00a0GLM<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Flash Extent Density<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed\u00a0Tropical Storm Eta<\/strong><\/a> from sunrise to sunset, as it continued a slow northward movement — pulsing overshooting tops occasionally exhibited infrared brightness temperatures of -90\u00baC and colder (yellow pixels embedded within darker shades of purple),<\/em> and lightning activity persisted for much of the day.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images (with and without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density) and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 11 November Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Eta once again reached Hurricane intensity at 1235 UTC on 11 November<\/strong><\/a>, as it approached the west coast of Florida. 1-minute GOES-16 Visible images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the partially exposed low-level circulation of Eta; however, it then weakened back to a Tropical Storm several hours later, at 1800 UTC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A toggle between Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) and Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images at 0734 UTC (above) showed Tropical Storm Eta over the Gulf of Mexico (northwest of Cuba) on 10 November 2020. A large convective burst was seen southeast of the storm center, with concentric cloud-top gravity waves propagating radially outward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,74,30,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-lightning","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38892","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=38892"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38916,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38892\/revisions\/38916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}