{"id":487,"date":"2007-08-19T22:49:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T22:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/08\/19\/hurricane-dean-approaches-jamaica\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T22:33:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T22:33:35","slug":"hurricane-dean-approaches-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/487","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dean approaches Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070819_dean_vis_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-12 visible 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\/070819_dean_vis_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-12 visible images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"GOES-12 visible images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"402\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An animation of GOES-12 visible images from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic2\/\" title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>  shows that the northern eyewall of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2007\/DEAN.shtml?\" title=\"Hurricane Dean NHC discussions\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hurricane Dean<\/strong><\/a> (rated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshs.shtml\" title=\"Category 4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Category 4<\/strong><\/a>, with  maximum sustained winds of 145 mph) was affecting the southwestern portion of Jamaica on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20070819.html\" title=\"19 AUgust 2007 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>19 August 2007<\/strong><\/a>. A visible image from NOAA-18 <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> gives a closer view, with some hints of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~kossin\/articles\/kossin_etal_2002.pdf\" title=\"mesovortex paper (Kossin et al)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mesovortex structure<\/strong><\/a> within the eye region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070819_N18_VIS.GIF\" title=\"NOAA-18 visible image\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070819_N18_VIS.GIF\" title=\"NOAA-18 visible image\" alt=\"NOAA-18 visible image\" align=\"middle\" height=\"363\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NOAA-18 <a href=\"http:\/\/amsu.ssec.wisc.edu\/atl44.html\" title=\"AMSU-B images\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AMSU-B<\/strong><\/a> Channel 16 (89 GHz) image <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>  revealed a concentric eyewall structure at 16:55 UTC, and aircraft reconnaissance indicated that the strongest winds were associated with the outer eyewall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070819_amsub_ch16.gif\" title=\"NOAA-18 AMSU-B 89 GHz image\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070819_amsub_ch16.gif\" title=\"NOAA-18 AMSU-B 89 GHz image\" alt=\"NOAA-18 AMSU-B 89 GHz image\" align=\"middle\" height=\"367\" width=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An animation of GOES-12 visible images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) shows that the northern eyewall of Hurricane Dean (rated Category 4, with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph) was affecting the southwestern portion of Jamaica on 19 August 2007. A visible image from NOAA-18 (below) gives a closer view, with some hints [&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":[22,19,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-goes-12","category-poes","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}