{"id":41357,"date":"2021-07-02T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41357"},"modified":"2021-07-05T20:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T20:35:37","slug":"hurricane-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41357","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Elsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/07\/210702_goes16_visible_infrared_Hurricane_Else_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/07\/else_vis-20210702_120028.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"647\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window<em> (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/07\/210702_goes16_visible_infrared_Hurricane_Else_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2021\/ELSA.shtml?\"><strong>Elsa<\/strong><\/a> was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2021\/al05\/al052021.discus.008.shtml?\"><strong>1230 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 02 July 2021 &#8212; and 1-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0<em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images\u00a0<em><strong>(above)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>showed the tropical cyclone during and after the time period that it began to spread hurricane-force winds across the islands of Barbados and St. Lucia. Pulsing overshooting tops exhibited infrared brightness temperatures in the -80 to -87\u00baC range<em> (shades of purple)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 Infrared images with an overlay of <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/winds\/info.winds.shr.html\"><strong>deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that Elsa was moving through an environment of low shear.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/07\/210702_goes16_infrared_20utc_shear_Else_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/07\/210702_goes16_infrared_20utc_shear_Else_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-16 Infrared images, with an overlay of deep-layer wind shear at 20 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Infrared images, with an overlay of deep-layer wind shear at 20 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsa was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane at 1230 UTC on 02 July 2021 &#8212; and 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above)\u00a0showed the tropical cyclone during and after the time period that it began to spread hurricane-force winds across the islands of Barbados and St. Lucia. 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