{"id":54178,"date":"2023-08-28T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=54178"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:09:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:09:50","slug":"hurricane-franklin-reaches-category-4-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/54178","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Franklin reaches Category 4 intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230828_0612utc_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_infrared_Franklin_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230828_0612utc_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_infrared_Franklin_anim.gif\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images valid at 0612 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between NOAA-20 (mislabeled as NPP) VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images valid at 0612 UTC on 28 August 2023 <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2023\/FRANKLIN.shtml?\"><strong>Hurricane Franklin<\/strong><\/a> a few hours before it reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/aboutsshws.php\"><strong>Category 3<\/strong><\/a> intensity.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230828_goes16_visible_glmFlashExtentDensity_Hurricane_Franklin_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/fr_vis-20230828_130117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with\/without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230828_goes16_visible_glmFlashExtentDensity_Hurricane_Franklin_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Franklin rapidly intensified to Category 4 intensity as of 1200 UTC &#8212; animations of GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with\/without an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the hurricane as it moved away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbc.noaa.gov\/station_page.php?station=41047\"><strong>Buoy 41047<\/strong><\/a> during the 1201-1701 UTC period. Abundant lightning activity was seen within the eyewall region &#8212; and mesovortices were evident within the eye.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230828_goes16_infrared_Hurricane_Franklin_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/fr_ir-20230828_130117.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#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\/08\/230828_goes16_infrared_Hurricane_Franklin_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A toggle between NOAA-20 (mislabeled as NPP) VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images valid at 0612 UTC on 28 August 2023 (above) showed Hurricane Franklin a few hours before it reached Category 3 intensity. Franklin rapidly intensified to Category 4 intensity as of 1200 UTC &#8212; animations of GOES-16 (GOES-East) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":54188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,74,30,78,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-lightning","category-noaa-20","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54178","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=54178"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54196,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54178\/revisions\/54196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}