{"id":50649,"date":"2023-02-21T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=50649"},"modified":"2023-02-22T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:14:51","slug":"cyclone-freddy-makes-landfall-in-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/50649","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Freddy makes landfall in Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/230221_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Freddy_landfall_Madagascar_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/G13_IR_FREDDY_21FEB20223_B4_2023052_154500_GOES-13_0001PANEL_FRAME00031.GIF\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EWS-G1 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/230221_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Freddy_landfall_Madagascar_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>US Space Force EWS-G1 (formerly GOES-13) Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Category 3 Cyclone Freddy making landfall along the east coast of Madagascar on 21 February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to products from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site, during the 12-15 hours leading up to landfall Freddy was traversing warm water with <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/230221_sst_Freddy.png\"><strong>Sea Surface Temperature<\/strong><\/a> values of 28C, and moving through an environment characterized by low values of <a href=\"https:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/winds\/info.winds.shr.html\"><strong>deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/230=221_meteosat9_waterVapor_deepLayerWindShear_Freddy_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/20230221.15.Indian.DeepShearStorm.png\" width=\"960\" height=\"850\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-9 Water Vapor (6.25 \u00b5m) images, with contours and streamlines of deep-layer wind shear [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Space Force EWS-G1 (formerly GOES-13) Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images (above) showed Category 3 Cyclone Freddy making landfall along the east coast of Madagascar on 21 February 2023. According to products from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site, during the 12-15 hours leading up to landfall Freddy was traversing warm water with Sea Surface Temperature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":50670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,23,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ews-g1","category-meteosat","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50649","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=50649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50672,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50649\/revisions\/50672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}