{"id":52266,"date":"2023-05-14T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=52266"},"modified":"2023-05-14T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T20:25:29","slug":"cyclone-mocha-reaches-category-4-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52266","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Mocha reaches Category 5 intensity"},"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 Cyclone Mocha in the Bay of Bengal on 13 May 2023 (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed cold clouds surrounding an eye that gradually became more cloud-cleared \u2014 with isolated cloud-top infrared brightness temperature values of -90\u00baC and colder (yellow pixels embedded within dark purple regions). Mocha reached Category 4 intensity at 0000 UTC on 13 May, and Category 5 intensity (sustained winds of 140 knots)at 0000 UTC on 14 May (SATCON<\/strong><\/a> | JTWC advisory<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

A sequence of DMSP and GMI Microwave (85 GHz) images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed snapshots of an eyewall that became more well defined during the day.<\/p>\n

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DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1156 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>
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GMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1226 UTC [click to enlarge]\u00a0<\/p><\/div>
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DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 2149 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The MIMIC-TC<\/strong><\/a> product (below)<\/strong><\/em> shows the 48-hour period of Mocha’s approach toward and landfall in Myanmar.<\/p>\n

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MIMIC-TC product, 12-14 May [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>Near the time that Mocha was classified at a Category 5 tropical cyclone, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image from the RADARSAT Constellation Mission 2 (RCM-2) satellite at 2355 UTC (source<\/strong><\/a>) is shown below — the peak SAR wind of 136.24 knots was found in the NW quadrant<\/strong><\/a> of Mocha.<\/p>\n

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RCM-2 SAR winds at 2355 UTC on 13 May [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Several hours after reaching its peak intensity as a Category 5 storm, JMA Hmawari-9 Visible and Infrared images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed Mocha making landfall along the coast of Myanmar just after 0800 UTC on 14 May, at Category 4 intensity.<\/p>\n

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JMA Hmawari-9 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m, right) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JMA Himawari-9 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images of Cyclone Mocha in the Bay of Bengal on 13 May 2023 (above) displayed cold clouds surrounding an eye that gradually became more cloud-cleared \u2014 with isolated cloud-top infrared brightness temperature values of -90\u00baC and colder (yellow pixels embedded within dark purple regions). Mocha reached Category 4 intensity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":52270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,73,79,104,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-himawari-9","category-microwave","category-sar","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266","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=52266"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52288,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266\/revisions\/52288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}