{"id":40901,"date":"2021-05-16T21:21:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40901"},"modified":"2021-05-21T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:03:32","slug":"cyclone-tauktae-in-the-arabian-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40901","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 656px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210516_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Tauktae_anim.gif\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210516_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Tauktae_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/G13_IR_TAUKTAE_16MAY2021_B4_2021136_154500_GOES-13_0001PANEL_FRAME0000031.GIF\" alt=\"US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"646\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared <em>(10.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210516_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Tauktae_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images\u00a0<em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea (just off the west coast of India) as it intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 3 storm on 16 May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a fully enclosed eye at 1142 UTC, shortly before Tauktae reached Category 3 intensity at 12 UTC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210516_1142utc_dmsp18_ssmsi_microwave.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210516_1142utc_dmsp18_ssmsi_microwave.gif\" alt=\"DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1142 UTC [click to enlarge] \" width=\"643\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave <em>(85 GHz)<\/em> image at 1142 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>===== 17 May Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210517_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Tauktae_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/G13_IR_TAUKTAE_17MAY2021_B4_2021137_171500_GOES-13_0001PANEL_FRAME0000033.GIF\" alt=\"US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared <em>(10.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210517_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Tauktae_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>EWS-G1 Infrared images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed Cyclone Tauktae making landfall along the coast of India around 1745 UTC on 17 May, with a Category 3 intensity (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210517_adt_Cyclone_Tauktae.gif\"><strong>ADT<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210517_satcon_Cyclone_Tauktae.png\"><strong>SATCON<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above) showed Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea (just off the west coast of India) as it intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 3 storm on 16 May 2021. A DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (below) revealed a fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,92,79,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-ews-g1","category-microwave","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40901","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=40901"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40917,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40901\/revisions\/40917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}