{"id":41877,"date":"2021-08-11T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41877"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:51:37","slug":"tropical-storm-fred-in-the-caribbean-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41877","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Fred in the Caribbean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210811_goes16_infrared_visible_TS_Fred_landfall_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/fred_ir-20210811_180027.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210811_goes16_infrared_visible_TS_Fred_landfall_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4]<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Potential Tropical Cyclone 6 was upgraded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2021\/FRED.shtml?\"><strong>Tropical Storm Fred<\/strong><\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2021\/al06\/al062021.discus.006.shtml?\"><strong>03 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 11 August 2021, just south of Puerto Rico &#8212; and 1\u2013minute\u00a0<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>)<em>\u00a0<\/em>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) <\/strong><\/em>showed Fred as it made landfall along the southern coast of the Dominican Republic around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2021\/al06\/al062021.public_a.008.shtml?\"><strong>18 UTC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fred was moving through an environment characterized by relatively low values of <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/winds\/info.winds.shr.html\"><strong>deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a>, according to an analysis from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones <\/strong><\/a>site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210811_goes16_infrared_19utcShear_TS_Fred_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210811_goes16_infrared_19utcShear_TS_Fred_anim.gif\" width=\"644\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Infrared (11.2 \u00b5m) images, with contours of deep-layer wind shear at 19 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential Tropical Cyclone 6 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Fred at 03 UTC on 11 August 2021, just south of Puerto Rico &#8212; and 1\u2013minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-16\u00a0(GOES-East)\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)\u00a0and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above) showed Fred as it made landfall along the southern coast of the Dominican Republic around 18 UTC. 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