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<\/a>GOES-16 Air Mass RGB images, with ship reports plotted in yellow [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Air Mass RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the signature of dry air (brighter shades of orange-red, which also indicate the presence of a lower tropopause with higher levels of stratospheric ozone within the atmospheric column) wrapping into the circulation of an anomalously-deep<\/strong><\/a> Hurricane Force low pressure system — which had recently rapidly intensified over the North Atlantic Ocean — during the 09 December – 10 December 2022 period (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n A closer view of GOES-16 Air Mass RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em> includes plots of land-based surface reports — and as the system slowly weakened to a Storm Force low about 200 miles NW of the Azores at 12 UTC on 10 December, a wind gust to 55 knots (63 mph) was recorded at Flores Airport in the far NW part of that island chain (RGB image<\/strong><\/a> | plot of surface data<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n GOES-16 Air Mass RGB images, with ship reports plotted in yellow and land-based surface reports plotted in cyan [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a>