{"id":39226,"date":"2020-12-14T19:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39226"},"modified":"2020-12-14T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:38:36","slug":"stereoscopic-views-of-cyclones-yasa-and-zazu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39226","title":{"rendered":"Stereoscopic views of Cyclones Yasa and Zazu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39226-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"250\" loop preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201213_2100_to_20201214_0550_YasaStereoanim.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201213_2100_to_20201214_0550_YasaStereoanim.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201213_2100_to_20201214_0550_YasaStereoanim.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center>GOES-17 (left) and Himawari-8 (right) visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery over Fiji, 2100 UTC on 13 December through 0500 UTC on 14 December (Click to animate)<\/p>\n<p>An active area of tropical weather has spawned two tropical cyclones that bracketed the islands of Fiji early on 14 December. Himawari-8 (data courtesy the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\">Japanese Meteorological Agency, JMA<\/a>) and GOES-17 both viewed the two storms, with Yasa on the left and Zazu on the right, and stereoscopic views are shown above. (To view the imagery in three dimensions, relax\/cross your eyes until three images are present, and focus on the image in the center). Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201213_2100_to_20201214_0550_YasaStereoanim.mp4\">here<\/a> for a full-sized mp4, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201213_2100_to_20201214_0550_YasaStereoanim.gif\">here<\/a> for an animated gif.<\/p>\n<p>The storms had an interesting development, as shown below in a 3-day Himawari-8 Clean Window infrared imagery mp4 animation (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201210_0000_to_20201213_2330anim.gif\">here<\/a> for a large animated gif of the same scene) from 10-13 December 2020. Yasa in particular developed in a region of considerable shear and initially followed a circuitous route (shown in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/PathForecast.gif\">this graphic<\/a> from RSMC Fiji), but it has since moved into a more favorable environment.\u00a0 Yasa also absorbed the remains of Tropical Storm #4.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39226-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" loop preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201210_0000_to_20201213_2330anim.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201210_0000_to_20201213_2330anim.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201210_0000_to_20201213_2330anim.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center>Himawari-8 Clean window infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery, 0000 UTC on 10 December &#8211; 2350 UTC on 13 December (Click to animate;\u00a0 data courtesy JMA)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_39242\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39242\" class=\"wp-image-39242\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled.png 3000w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled-1024x410.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled-1536x614.png 1536w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201214_1900_YasaStereo2Labeled-2048x819.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 (left) and Himawari-8 (right) visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery over Fiji, 1900 UTC on 14 December 2020 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Added:\u00a0 The morning view of the storms, above, from 1900 UTC on 14 December reveals that Zazu is becoming sheared.\u00a0 The low-level center is exposed with convection shifted to the east.\u00a0 This is consistent with shear analyses from the SSEC Tropical website, below, that shows westerly shear over the storm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39243\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/1500BasinShear.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39243\" class=\"wp-image-39243\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/1500BasinShear.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/1500BasinShear.png 1025w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/1500BasinShear-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/1500BasinShear-768x582.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">850-200 mb shear analysis, 1500 UTC on 14 December 2020 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For more information on these storms, refer to the SSEC tropical website (<a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">link<\/a>), or to the RSMC in Fiji (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.met.gov.fj\/\">link<\/a>). At present, Yasa is forecast to make landfall in Fiji later this week as a very strong storm. Interests there should monitor this storm closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-17 (left) and Himawari-8 (right) visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery over Fiji, 2100 UTC on 13 December through 0500 UTC on 14 December (Click to animate) An active area of tropical weather has spawned two tropical cyclones that bracketed the islands of Fiji early on 14 December. Himawari-8 (data courtesy the Japanese Meteorological Agency, JMA) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":39237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,62,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-himawari-8","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226","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=39226"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39246,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226\/revisions\/39246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}