{"id":53200,"date":"2023-06-30T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=53200"},"modified":"2023-06-30T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T21:00:02","slug":"east-pacific-hurricane-beatriz-off-the-coast-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/53200","title":{"rendered":"East Pacific Hurricane Beatriz off the coast of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230630_goes18_visible_infrared_TS_Beatriz_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/bea_ir-20230630_162926.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230630_goes18_visible_infrared_TS_Beatriz_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em>\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images\u00a0<em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Category 1 Hurricane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2023\/BEATRIZ.shtml?\"><strong>Beatriz<\/strong><\/a> just off the west coast of Mexico (near Ixtapa, station identifier MMZH) as a cloud-filled eye was becoming more apparent.<\/p>\n<p>A DMSP-17 Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1322 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site indicated that the eyewall had not yet completely closed at that time.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1354px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230630_1332utc_dmsp17_ssmis_microwave_TS_Beatriz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230630_1332utc_dmsp17_ssmis_microwave_TS_Beatriz.png\" width=\"1344\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1332 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>However, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) winds <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> from an earlier 1240 UTC overpass of RCM-2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/socd\/mecb\/sar\/AKDEMO_products\/APL_winds\/tropical\/?year=2023&amp;storm=EP022023_BEATRIZ\"><strong>source<\/strong><\/a>) did suggest that a closed eye had formed &#8212; and the peak radial wind speed at that time was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/socd\/mecb\/sar\/AKDEMO_products\/APL_winds\/tropical\/2023\/EP022023_BEATRIZ\/RCM2_SHUB_2023_06_30_12_40_49_0741444049_101.28W_15.55N_HV_C-10_MERGED01_RadialWinds_All_3.0km.png\"><strong>79 knots<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1927px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230630_1240utc_rcm2_sar_winds_Beatriz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/06\/230630_1240utc_rcm2_sar_winds_Beatriz.png\" width=\"1917\" height=\"1955\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCM-2 SAR winds at 1240 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West)\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above) showed Category 1 Hurricane Beatriz just off the west coast of Mexico (near Ixtapa, station identifier MMZH) as a cloud-filled eye was becoming more apparent. 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