{"id":42286,"date":"2021-08-30T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=42286"},"modified":"2021-08-30T20:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:57:36","slug":"tropical-storm-kate-loses-convection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/42286","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Kate loses convection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_C02_20210830_0930_to_1900_KateLogoAnnotanim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_C02_20210830_0930_KateLogoAnnot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_C02_20210830_0930_KateLogoAnnot.png 960w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_C02_20210830_0930_KateLogoAnnot-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_C02_20210830_0930_KateLogoAnnot-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Imagery, 0930 &#8211; 1900 UTC on 30 August 2021 (Click to play animation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The animation above, of GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery, shows Tropical Storm Kate at sunrise with convection near the storm center and to its east. (An overnight image from Suomi NPP&#8217;s Day Night Band, below, taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov\/\">NASA Worldview<\/a>, also shows convection near the storm center.) As the day progresses, however, the obvious surface circulation moves northward and the convection near the surface collapses.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/DNB_SNPP_30August2021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/DNB_SNPP_30August2021-1024x597.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/DNB_SNPP_30August2021-1024x597.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/DNB_SNPP_30August2021-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/DNB_SNPP_30August2021-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/DNB_SNPP_30August2021.png 1282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Suomi NPP Day Night Band Visible (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery over Tropical Storm Kate, 30 August 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The shear analysis from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">CIMSS Tropical Website<\/a>, below, shows why the convection is displaced to the east of this storm.  Strong westerly shear is present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/KateShear200_850_1900UTC_30August2021-1024x680.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/KateShear200_850_1900UTC_30August2021-1024x680.gif 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/KateShear200_850_1900UTC_30August2021-300x199.gif 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/KateShear200_850_1900UTC_30August2021-768x510.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>200-850 shear analysis over Tropical Storm Kate, 1900 UTC on 30 August 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The animation above, of GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery, shows Tropical Storm Kate at sunrise with convection near the storm center and to its east. (An overnight image from Suomi NPP&#8217;s Day Night Band, below, taken from NASA Worldview, also shows convection near the storm center.) As the day progresses, however, the obvious surface circulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":42287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42286","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=42286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42292,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42286\/revisions\/42292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}