{"id":50821,"date":"2023-02-27T20:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=50821"},"modified":"2023-03-02T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:04:50","slug":"tropical-cylcone-judy-in-the-south-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/50821","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Judy in the South Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JMA Himawari-9 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-9 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images of Tropical Cyclone Judy in the South Pacific Ocean on 27 February 2023 (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed some unusually cold cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures — with isolated vales of -100\u00baC and colder (red pixels embedded within interior darker black regions).<\/p>\n

The Central Cold Cover feature was displaced to the NNW of the low-level storm center — and Judy was moving through an environment of low deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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===== 28 February Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

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JMA Himawari-9 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>On the following day, 2.5-minute interval rapid scan Himawari-9 Infrared images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Judy as the storm was rapidly intensifying during its southward trek across the Vanuatu island chain. A ragged eye structure was intermittently observed.<\/p>\n

A GMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1717 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed that the eye of Judy was passing over the island of Epi, Vanuatu at that time.<\/p>\n

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GMI Microwave (85 GHz) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 01 March Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

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JMA Himawari-9 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Judy then further intensified to a Category 3 storm at 0900 UTC on 01 March (SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) — however, not long after that time, 2.5-minute rapid scan JMA Himawari-9 Infrared images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the ragged eye became obscured by high clouds from surrounding deep convection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JMA Himawari-9 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images of Tropical Cyclone Judy in the South Pacific Ocean on 27 February 2023 (above) displayed some unusually cold cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures — with isolated vales of -100\u00baC and colder (red pixels embedded within interior darker black regions). The Central Cold Cover feature was displaced to the NNW […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":50824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,79,47,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-9","category-microwave","category-other-satellites","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821","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=50821"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50861,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821\/revisions\/50861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}