{"id":52428,"date":"2023-05-20T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=52428"},"modified":"2023-05-22T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T17:02:03","slug":"tropical-storm-mawar-in-the-west-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52428","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Mawar in the West Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230520_himawari9_infrared_TS_Mawar_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/HIM09_IR_MAWAR_20MAY2023_B13_2023140_100709_0001PANEL_FRAME00243.GIF\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">JMA Himawari-9&#8243;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230520_himawari9_infrared_TS_Mawar_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>As West Pacific Tropical Depression 02W &#8212; previously discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52396\"><strong>this blog post<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; intensified to become Tropical Storm Mawar at 1200 UTC on 20 May 2023, 2.5-minute rapid scan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;Himawari-9 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images&nbsp;<em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed pulses of cold overshooting tops that frequently exhibited infrared brightness temperatures in the -90 to -95\u00baC range.<\/p>\n<p>Himawari-9 Infrared Window (11.2 \u00b5m) images with an overlay of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/winds\/info.winds.shr.html\"><strong>deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> at 1800 UTC from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;site&nbsp;<em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that Mawar was moving into an environment of lower shear, which favored a trend of continued intensification.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1064px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230520_himawari9_infrared_1800utc_shear_Mawar_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/05\/230520_himawari9_infrared_1800utc_shear_Mawar_anim.gif\" width=\"1054\" height=\"704\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-9 Infrared Window (11.2 \u00b5m) images, with an overlay of deep-layer wind shear at 1800 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As West Pacific Tropical Depression 02W &#8212; previously discussed in this blog post &#8212; intensified to become Tropical Storm Mawar at 1200 UTC on 20 May 2023, 2.5-minute rapid scan JMA&nbsp;Himawari-9 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images&nbsp;(above) showed pulses of cold overshooting tops that frequently exhibited infrared brightness temperatures in the -90 to -95\u00baC range. 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