{"id":489,"date":"2007-08-20T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/08\/20\/hurricane-dean-becomes-a-category-5-storm\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T21:45:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T21:45:53","slug":"hurricane-dean-becomes-a-category-5-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/489","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dean becomes a Category 5 storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070820_dean_cat5_ir.jpg\" title=\"GOES-12 IR image\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070820_dean_cat5_ir.jpg\" title=\"GOES-12 IR image\" alt=\"GOES-12 IR image\" align=\"middle\" height=\"409\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GOES-12 IR image <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> and the SSM\/I 85GHz brightness temperature image <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic2\/\" title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site show Hurricane Dean shortly after it was upgraded to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saffir-Simpson_Scale\" title=\"Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Category 5<\/strong><\/a> intensity late in the day on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20070820.html\" title=\"20 August 2007 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>20 August 2007<\/strong><\/a>, with surface winds estimated to be about 160 mph. Dean is the first Category 5 storm in the Atlantic basin since <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/657\" title=\"Hurricane Wilma (CIMSS Satellite Blog)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hurricane Wilma<\/strong><\/a> in October 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Note the double eyewall structure indicated on the SSM\/I image below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070820_dean_cat5_ssmi.jpg\" title=\"SSM\/I 85 GHz image\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/08\/070820_dean_cat5_ssmi.jpg\" title=\"SSM\/I 85 GHz image\" alt=\"SSM\/I 85 GHz image\" align=\"middle\" height=\"409\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOES-12 IR image (above) and the SSM\/I 85GHz brightness temperature image (below) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site show Hurricane Dean shortly after it was upgraded to Category 5 intensity late in the day on 20 August 2007, with surface winds estimated to be about 160 mph. Dean is the first Category 5 storm [&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":[19,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-12","category-poes","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}