{"id":48129,"date":"2022-09-28T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=48129"},"modified":"2022-09-28T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:36:07","slug":"ian-and-charley-eye-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/48129","title":{"rendered":"Ian and Charley eye comparison"},"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\/09\/IANCHARLEY_1915_4AUG2004toggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/09\/IANCHARLEY_1915_4AUG2004toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48130\" \/><\/a><figcaption>GOES-16 and GOES-12 visible (0.64 um) imagery at 1731 UTC on 28 September (Ian) and 1915 UTC on 13 August 2004 (Charley). (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The toggle above compares eyewall sizes from 2004&#8217;s Hurricane Charley and 2022&#8217;s Hurricane Ian near landfall in\/around Fort Myer FL.  Charley was a small cat-4 storm at landfall (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2004\/pub\/al032004.public.019.shtml?\">link<\/a>) with a 10-nm wide eye..  Hurricane-force winds with Charley extended only 15-25 miles out from the eye (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2004\/mar\/al032004.fstadv.018.shtml?\">link<\/a>). In contrast, Ian has a much larger eye (30 nautical miles) and hurricane-force winds extend 30-40 miles from the eyewall (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2004\/mar\/al032004.fstadv.018.shtml?\">link<\/a>)!  Other GOES-12 Imagery of Charley is available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/\">CIMSS GOES Gallery<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/040813\/040813.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current information on Hurricane Ian is available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toggle above compares eyewall sizes from 2004&#8217;s Hurricane Charley and 2022&#8217;s Hurricane Ian near landfall in\/around Fort Myer FL. Charley was a small cat-4 storm at landfall (link) with a 10-nm wide eye.. Hurricane-force winds with Charley extended only 15-25 miles out from the eye (link). In contrast, Ian has a much larger eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":48132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,74,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-12","category-goes-16","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48129","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=48129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48133,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48129\/revisions\/48133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}