{"id":454,"date":"2007-08-13T14:24:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/08\/13\/hurricane-flossie\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:58:12","slug":"hurricane-flossie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/454","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Flossie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070813_flossie_ir.gif\" title=\"GOES-11 IR image\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070813_flossie_ir.gif\" title=\"GOES-11 IR image\" alt=\"GOES-11 IR image\" align=\"middle\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GOES-11 IR imagery from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic2\/\" title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> depicted a nice symmetric eye structure exhibited by <strong>Hurricane Flossie<\/strong> as it maintained Category 4 intensity in the central Pacific Ocean on <strong>13 August 2007<\/strong>. Judging from the IR imagery, Flossie appeared to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Annular_hurricane\" title=\"annular hurricane (Wikipedia)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>annular hurricane<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; annular hurricanes tend to weaken more slowly than non-annular storms of similar intensity, which may help to explain why Flossie maintained Category 4 intensity even as it began to encounter slightly cooler sea surface temperatures and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070813_flossie_shear.jpg\" title=\"CIMSS wind shear product\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>increasing environmental shear<\/strong><\/a>. While Hurricane Flossie was forecast to weaken somewhat as it passed just to the south of the Hawaiian Islands <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>, some adverse impacts <em>(increasing winds, high surf, heavy rainfall)<\/em> were still expected as the storm approached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070813_flossie_ir_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-11 IR images (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070813_flossie_ir_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-11 IR images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"GOES-11 IR images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-11 IR imagery from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) depicted a nice symmetric eye structure exhibited by Hurricane Flossie as it maintained Category 4 intensity in the central Pacific Ocean on 13 August 2007. Judging from the IR imagery, Flossie appeared to be an annular hurricane &#8212; annular hurricanes tend to weaken more slowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-11","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}