{"id":43886,"date":"2021-12-18T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=43886"},"modified":"2021-12-21T04:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T04:32:37","slug":"super-typhoon-rai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/43886","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Rai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211218_himawari8_infrared_Super_Typhoon_Rai_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/HIM08_IR_RAI_18DEC2021_B13_2021352_180215_HIMAWARI-8_0001PANEL_FRAME0000289.GIF\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211218_himawari8_infrared_Super_Typhoon_Rai_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the second time during its life cycle, Typhoon Rai reached Category 5 intensity (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211218_adt_Rai.gif\"><strong>ADT<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211219_satcon_Rai.png\"><strong>SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) east of Vietnam during the 18-19 December 2021 period. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -90C and colder at times around the eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP as viewed using <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\">RealEarth<\/a><\/strong> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a more detailed view of Rai around the time that it reached Category 5 intensity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211218_18utc_noaa20_suomiNPP_viirs_infrared_Super_Typhoon_Rai_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211218_18utc_noaa20_suomiNPP_viirs_infrared_Super_Typhoon_Rai_anim.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>3 days earlier, Rai first reached reached Category 5 intensity at 0000 UTC on 16 December, shortly before making landfall in the Philippines; 2.5-minute Himawari-8 Infrared images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a small-diameter &#8220;pinhole&#8221; eye. As Rai moved across the Philippines, it was responsible for hundreds of fatalities in addition to widespread flooding and power outages.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211215_211216_himawari8_infrared_Rai_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/HIM08_IR_RAI_1516DEC2021_B13_2021350_000215_HIMAWARI-8_0001PANEL_FRAME0000289.GIF\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211215_211216_himawari8_infrared_Rai_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time during its life cycle, Typhoon Rai reached Category 5 intensity (ADT | SATCON) east of Vietnam during the 18-19 December 2021 period. JMA Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of -90C and colder at times around the eye. \u00a0VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,78,53,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886","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=43886"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43918,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886\/revisions\/43918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}