{"id":38919,"date":"2020-11-15T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38919"},"modified":"2020-11-20T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:17:40","slug":"hurricane-iota-in-the-caribbean-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38919","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Iota in the Caribbean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m),<\/em> \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Iota<\/strong><\/a> intensified to a Category 1 hurricane at 0600 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 15 November 2020 — 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Water Vapor images\u00a0(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the interior structure of the tropical cyclone improved during the day.<\/p>\n

GOES-16 Longwave Infrared (11.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images, with contours of 02 UTC\u00a0deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones <\/strong><\/a>site (below)<\/strong><\/em>showed that the hurricane was moving through an environment of low southwesterly shear, which favored intensification.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Longwave Infrared (11.2 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with contours of 19 UTC deep-layer wind shear [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 16 November Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

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>Iota rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm as of 15 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 16 November (ADT<\/strong><\/a> | SATCON<\/strong><\/a>). 1-minute GOES-16 Visible and Infrared images from sunrise to sunset are shown above; mesovortices were seen within the eye of the hurricane. Iota had been moving over warm water having\u00a0 Sea Surface Temperature<\/strong><\/a> values of 29-30\u00baC, which was favorable for intensification.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>After sunset, Hurricane Iota eventually made landfall along the coast of Nicaragua as a Category 4 storm at 0340 UTC on 17 November<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— GOES-16 Infrared images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>indicated an eye structure that was deteriorating and becoming more cloud-filled as the hurricane approached the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iota intensified to a Category 1 hurricane at 0600 UTC on 15 November 2020 — 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)\u00a0 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) and Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images\u00a0(above) showed that the interior structure of the tropical cyclone improved during the day. GOES-16 Longwave Infrared (11.2 \u00b5m) images, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38919","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\/38919","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=38919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38958,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38919\/revisions\/38958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}