{"id":45680,"date":"2022-04-08T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=45680"},"modified":"2022-04-08T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T19:42:08","slug":"tropical-cyclone-malakas-in-the-western-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45680","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Malakas in the western Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/H8Bando3_08-20220408_0630_to_0700Lsidebysidestepanim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2258\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/H8Bando3_08-20220408_0630_to_0700Lsidebysidestepanim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45687\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Himawari-8 Band 3 (Visible 0.64 \u00b5m) and Band 8 (infrared 6.24 \u00b5m) from 0630 to 0700 UTC on 8 April 2022 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tropical disturbance (formerly 95W) in the western Pacific south of Guam (discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45557\">here<\/a>) has strengthened and become the second western Pacific named storm of the year:  Malakas.  The storm is about halfway between the islands of Guam and New Guinea.   The side-by-side imagery above, showing Himawari Band 3 and Band 8 imagery (courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\">JMA<\/a>), shows deep convection near the center of the storm that was at fairly low latitudes:  around 6<sup>o<\/sup> N at 0600 UTC on 8 April, the times of the imagery above.  In addition, the storm is far from dry air.   A 24-hour animation of the Band 3 (0.64 \u00b5m)\/Band 13 (10.41 \u00b5m) sandwich product on 7 April 2022 below, taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.data.jma.go.jp\/mscweb\/data\/himawari\/\">this site<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45272\">see this blog post<\/a>), shows the rotation of the system and the abundance of convection at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/pil_snd_0000_to_2350_0407anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45693\" \/><figcaption>HImawari-8 Sandwich Product, 0000-2350 UTC on 7 April 2022 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/JTWCForecastPathInit1200UTC_8April2022.gif\">The forecast at 1200 UTC on 8 April<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/jtwc.html\">Joint Typhoon Warning Center<\/a> take this strengthening storm northwest, between Guam and Yap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagery from the SSEC\/CIMSS Tropical Weather website, below, shows the storm in a region of low shear.  An excellent ASCAT overpass at 1126 UTC on 8 April 2022 showed a closed-off center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1074\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/Malakas_SSECTropic_imagery_1200_1500UTC_8April2022.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45697\" \/><figcaption>Malakas imagery from the SSEC\/CIMSS Tropical Website, data valid between 1126 UTC (ASCAT) and 1500 UTC (Wind shear analysis)  (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical disturbance (formerly 95W) in the western Pacific south of Guam (discussed here) has strengthened and become the second western Pacific named storm of the year: Malakas. The storm is about halfway between the islands of Guam and New Guinea. The side-by-side imagery above, showing Himawari Band 3 and Band 8 imagery (courtesy JMA), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,58,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-metop","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45680","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=45680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45698,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45680\/revisions\/45698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}