{"id":41318,"date":"2021-07-01T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41318"},"modified":"2021-07-01T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:20:49","slug":"tropical-storm-elsa-forms-in-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41318","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Elsa forms in the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-41318-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"336\" loop preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/Elsa_CSPP-GeoSphere.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/Elsa_CSPP-GeoSphere.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/Elsa_CSPP-GeoSphere.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Night Time Microphysics (at night) and True-Color imagery (during the day) over the eastern Atlantic, 0920 &#8211; 1220 UTC on 1 July 2021<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Elsa has formed over the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 True-color imagery from <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#coordinate:0,0;\">CSPP Geosphere<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#playing:true;coordinate:2894722,1113780;zoom:3.2;num_frames:20;start_time:2021-07-01T09:10:21Z;timeframe:Start%20Time;\">link<\/a>) shows the storm with occasional bursts of deep convection.\u00a0 Elsa has formed at the southern edge of a large area of Saharan Air (shown below, <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/sal\/salmain.php?&amp;prod=split&amp;time=\">link<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">this site<\/a>), and the storm&#8217;s future could be influenced by this dry air.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41321\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/SALAnalysis_1200UTC_01July2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41321\" class=\"wp-image-41321\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/SALAnalysis_1200UTC_01July2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/SALAnalysis_1200UTC_01July2021.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/SALAnalysis_1200UTC_01July2021-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/SALAnalysis_1200UTC_01July2021-1024x545.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/SALAnalysis_1200UTC_01July2021-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/SALAnalysis_1200UTC_01July2021-1536x817.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saharan Air Layer analysis, 1200 UTC on 1 July 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The abundant dry air to the north of Elsa is also apparent in the low-level water vapor imagery, as shown below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41323\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10-20210701_124021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41323\" class=\"wp-image-41323\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10-20210701_124021.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10-20210701_124021.png 1188w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10-20210701_124021-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10-20210701_124021-1024x852.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10-20210701_124021-768x639.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 ABI infrared low-level water vapor (Band 10, 7.34 \u00b5m) at 1240 UTC on 1 July 2021. NHC prediction of the 1300 UTC position of Elsa along with 34-knot wind radii are shown (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The dry air associated with the SAL shows up nicely in gridded NUCAPS fields, too. The toggle below steps through the CIMSS True Color RGB and GOES-16 Band 10 imagery (7.34 \u00b5m) along with 850-700 mb relative humidity from gridded NUCAPS.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41329\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10_CIMSSTrueColor_NUCAPSRH-20210701_1512stepanim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41329\" class=\"wp-image-41329\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/G16Band10_CIMSSTrueColor_NUCAPSRH-20210701_1512stepanim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"611\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CIMSS True Color RGB, GOES-16 ABI Band 10 infrared water vapor (7.34 \u00b5m), 850-700 mb relative humidity, 1510 UTC on 1 July 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For more information on Elsa, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">SSEC Tropical Website<\/a>. Official forecasts are on the website of the National Hurricane Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">link<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2021\/ELSA.shtml?\">direct link to Elsa&#8217;s webpages there<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night Time Microphysics (at night) and True-Color imagery (during the day) over the eastern Atlantic, 0920 &#8211; 1220 UTC on 1 July 2021 Tropical Storm Elsa has formed over the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 True-color imagery from CSPP Geosphere (link) shows the storm with occasional bursts of deep convection.\u00a0 Elsa has formed at the southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":41321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,83,47,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-nucaps","category-other-satellites","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41318","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=41318"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41331,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41318\/revisions\/41331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}