{"id":42735,"date":"2021-10-03T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=42735"},"modified":"2021-10-23T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T21:53:38","slug":"cyclone-shaheen-gulab-makes-landfall-in-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/42735","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Shaheen makes landfall in Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211003_ewsG1_infrared_Shaheen_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/G13_IR_SHAHEEN_03OCT2021_B4_2021276_121500_GOES-13_0001PANEL_FRAME0000001.GIF\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211003_ewsG1_infrared_Shaheen_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>US Space Force EWS-G1 <em>(formerly GOES-13)<\/em> Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed<br \/>Hurricane Shaheen weakening to a Tropical Storm shortly after it made a rare landfall along the coast of Oman on 03 October 2021. The storm exhibited an eye at times as it was a Category 1 Hurricane over the Gulf of Oman. This was likely the first tropical cyclone to make landfall along that coastal portion of Oman since 1890 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclones_Gulab_and_Shaheen\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Meteosat-8 Infrared images, with contours of deep-layer wind shear from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the storm was moving through an environment of low shear.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211003_infrared_Shaheen_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211003_infrared_Shaheen_anim.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-8 Infrared images, with contours of deep-layer wind shear [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the Category 1 Hurricane at 0927 UTC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211003_0927utc_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_infraredWindow_Shaheen_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211003_0927utc_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_infraredWindow_Shaheen_anim.gif\" width=\"636\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images at 0927 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Space Force EWS-G1 (formerly GOES-13) Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images (above) showedHurricane Shaheen weakening to a Tropical Storm shortly after it made a rare landfall along the coast of Oman on 03 October 2021. The storm exhibited an eye at times as it was a Category 1 Hurricane over the Gulf of Oman. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,23,53,45,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ews-g1","category-meteosat","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42735","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=42735"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42971,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42735\/revisions\/42971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}