{"id":51,"date":"2006-09-05T23:44:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/09\/06\/tropical-storm-florence\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T04:16:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T04:16:55","slug":"tropical-storm-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/51","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical depression #6 in the Atlantic Basin strengthened into <a title=\"Tropical Storm Florence\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/atlantic\/storm\/storm1.html\"><strong>Tropical Storm Florence<\/strong><\/a> today <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Florence IR image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060905_florence_ir.gif\"><strong>(IR image)<\/strong><\/a>; forecasters at the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"National Hurricane Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2006\/dis\/al062006.discus.009.shtml?\"><strong>National Hurricane Center<\/strong><\/a> utlized a <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"CIMSS AMSU\" href=\"http:\/\/amsu.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>CIMSS  AMSU<\/strong><\/a> estimate of 1003 mb central pressure and 42 knot peak wind <em><strong>(below, left)<\/strong><\/em> to aid in their intensity estimate of the large developing tropical cyclone. The CIMSS satellite-derived <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"IR\/water vapor winds\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/atlantic\/winds\/winds-wvir.html\"><strong>IR\/water vapor winds<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(below, right)<\/strong><\/em> showed the presence of a large subtropical ridge located over the North Atlantic Ocean to the northwest of Florence &#8212; this ridge will likely be an important steering mechanism in the coming days as Florence continues to intensify and move toward the US East Coast.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"060905_florence_mimic.gif\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060905_florence_mimic.gif\" \/><a title=\"CIMSS AMSU-B \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060905_florence_amsu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" align=\"left\" alt=\"AMSU-B brightness temperature\" id=\"image49\" title=\"AMSU-B brightness temperature\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060905_amsub_ch16.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"CIMSS water vapor winds\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060905_florence_wvwinds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"155\" align=\"right\" alt=\"CIMSS water vapor winds\" id=\"image48\" title=\"CIMSS water vapor winds\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060905_florence_wvwinds.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical depression #6 in the Atlantic Basin strengthened into Tropical Storm Florence today (IR image); forecasters at the National Hurricane Center utlized a CIMSS AMSU estimate of 1003 mb central pressure and 42 knot peak wind (below, left) to aid in their intensity estimate of the large developing tropical cyclone. The CIMSS satellite-derived IR\/water vapor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}