{"id":39254,"date":"2020-12-16T00:49:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T00:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39254"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:58:12","slug":"cyclone-yasa-strengthens-rapidly-in-the-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39254","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Yasa strengthens rapidly in the South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39254-1\" 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_20201214_20201215anim.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201214_20201215anim.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201214_20201215anim.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery, 0000 UTC 14 December to 0000 UTC 16 December 2020 (Click to animate)<\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nHimawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery (courtesy the Japanese Meteorological Agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\">JMA<\/a>) from 14-15 December 2020 (click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/HIMAWARI-8_AHI_B13_20201214_20201215anim.gif\">here<\/a> for an animated gif) show the development of a potent storm with an obvious clear and large eye by 0000 UTC on 16 December. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/jtwc.html\">Joint Typhoon Warning Center<\/a> notes: &#8221; TC 05P HAS RAPIDLY INTENSIFIED 50 KNOTS OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS, FROM 85 KNOTS AT 14\/18Z TO 135 KNOTS AT 15\/18Z.&#8221; Yasa further intensified to a Category 5 tropical cyclone at 0000 UTC on 16 December.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2.5-minute rapid scan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Himawari8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Himawari8<\/a> Infrared images of Category 5 (as of 0000 UTC) Cyclone <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yasa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yasa<\/a> northwest of Fiji: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CcSMlqeInA\">https:\/\/t.co\/CcSMlqeInA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zZ4Vl4DalM\">pic.twitter.com\/zZ4Vl4DalM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Bachmeier (@CIMSS_Satellite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CIMSS_Satellite\/status\/1339034004859785217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\nVisible imagery from GOES-17 and Himawari-8, (mp4 animation below, click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormLabeledLogoanim.gif\">here<\/a> for an animated gif, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormLabeledLogoanim.mp4\">here<\/a> for a full-sized mp4), during the day on 16 December show a well-developed storm with a clear eye.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39254-2\" 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_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormLabeledLogoanim.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormLabeledLogoanim.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormLabeledLogoanim.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Stereoscopic view of Cyclone Yasa, 1800 UTC 15 December to 0550 UTC 16 December 2020. Click to animate. GOES-17 Visible imagery on the left, Himawari imagery on the right<\/center>A storm-centered view of the storm is shown below. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredLabeledLogoanim.mp4\">here<\/a> for the full-sized mp4, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredLabeledLogoanim.gif\">here<\/a> for an animated gif.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39254-3\" width=\"625\" height=\"250\" 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_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredLabeledLogoanim.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredLabeledLogoanim.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredLabeledLogoanim.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Storm-centered stereoscopic view of Cyclone Yasa, 1800 UTC 15 December to 0550 UTC 16 December 2020. Click to animate. GOES-17 Visible imagery on the left, Himawari imagery on the right<\/p>\n<p><\/center>The animation below is also storm-centered, but zoomed in on the eye of the storm.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredEyeLabeledLogoanim.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_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredEyeLabeledLogoanim.gif\">here<\/a> for an animated gif<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-39254-4\" width=\"625\" height=\"312\" 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_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredEyeLabeledLogoanim.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredEyeLabeledLogoanim.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/Himaw08G17Stereo_ABI_RadF_064_20201215_1800_to_20201216_0650_YasaStormCenteredEyeLabeledLogoanim.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Storm-centered stereoscopic view of the eye of Cyclone Yasa, 1800 UTC 15 December to 0550 UTC 16 December 2020. Click to animate. GOES-17 Visible imagery on the left, Himawari imagery on the right<\/center>Forecast models take this strong cyclone over Fiji later this week. Refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/jtwc.html\">JTWC<\/a>, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.met.gov.fj\/\">RSMC in Fiji<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">SSEC Tropical web site<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery, 0000 UTC 14 December to 0000 UTC 16 December 2020 (Click to animate) Himawari-8 Clean Window Infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery (courtesy the Japanese Meteorological Agency, JMA) from 14-15 December 2020 (click here for an animated gif) show the development of a potent storm with an obvious clear and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":39259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39254","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=39254"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39295,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39254\/revisions\/39295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}