{"id":55127,"date":"2023-10-13T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=55127"},"modified":"2023-10-13T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:11:02","slug":"tropical-storm-sean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/55127","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Sean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tropical Storm Sean has developed in the mid-Atlantic and is moving northwest, but is predicted to dissipate by Sunday, 2023-10-15. RealEarth provides an opportunity to look back at the last 48 hours of Sean developing. A video from RealEarth shows GOES-16 true color and Band 13 (10.3 microns, &#8220;clean&#8221; infrared band) from 2023-10-11 at 1525Z to 2023-10-13 at 1525Z. While signs of convection are apparent on 2023-10-12, the storm structure appears dissipated by the daylight hours of 2023-10-13 when viewing at these wavelengths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1566\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2874 \/ 1566;\" width=\"2874\" controls src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/babyseanatl.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tropical Storm Sean is located in the Atlantic, about halfway between the outer Caribbean and West Africa. Viewers can recreate this animation using <a href=\"https:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/?products=G16-ABI-FD-TC.100,G16-ABI-FD-BAND09.47&amp;center=10.358151400943683,-31.289062500000004&amp;zoom=4&amp;width=1180&amp;height=783&amp;basemap=satellite&amp;labels=google&amp;view=leaflet&amp;collection=RealEarth&amp;timerange=2023-10-11+15:25:00,2023-10-13+15:25:00&amp;timestep=1h&amp;animationspeed=50\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/?products=G16-ABI-FD-TC.100,G16-ABI-FD-BAND09.47&amp;center=10.358151400943683,-31.289062500000004&amp;zoom=4&amp;width=1180&amp;height=783&amp;basemap=satellite&amp;labels=google&amp;view=leaflet&amp;collection=RealEarth&amp;timerange=2023-10-11+15:25:00,2023-10-13+15:25:00&amp;timestep=1h&amp;animationspeed=50\">RealEarth<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigating the finer details of Sean on 2023-10-13, Band 9 (6.95 microns, mid-level water vapor) is examined. A storm structure is hardly noticeable. What stands out in the Atlantic even more in the Band 9 animation is an unnamed disturbance to the East of Sean. (These are the red areas in the Band 9 animation.) The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">National Hurricane Center<\/a> predicts this system of having a 10% chance of forming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/sean101523-1024x492.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/sean101523-1024x492.gif 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/sean101523-300x144.gif 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/sean101523-768x369.gif 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/sean101523-1536x738.gif 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Viewing Sean using GOES-16 Band 9. This animation was created in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unidata.ucar.edu\/software\/awips2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.unidata.ucar.edu\/software\/awips2\/\">AWIPS<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=global2&amp;timespan=24hrs&amp;anim=html5\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=global2&amp;timespan=24hrs&amp;anim=html5\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/a> product, below, provides a look back at the last 24 hours of their TPW field. When examining TPW, a more cyclonic structure appears. The TPW field seems to show some actual rotation in Sean, which is harder to notice in the GOES animations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/mimictpw_natl_latest.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55129\" style=\"width:1053px;height:470px\" width=\"1053\" height=\"470\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=global2&amp;timespan=24hrs&amp;anim=html5\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=global2&amp;timespan=24hrs&amp;anim=html5\">MIMIC TPW<\/a> is available for anyone to view. The product&#8217;s acronym stands for <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/apme\/50\/5\/2010jamc2589.1.xml\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/apme\/50\/5\/2010jamc2589.1.xml\">Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS &#8211; Total Precipitable Water<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Sean has developed in the mid-Atlantic and is moving northwest, but is predicted to dissipate by Sunday, 2023-10-15. RealEarth provides an opportunity to look back at the last 48 hours of Sean developing. A video from RealEarth shows GOES-16 true color and Band 13 (10.3 microns, &#8220;clean&#8221; infrared band) from 2023-10-11 at 1525Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":55132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,74,53,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-goes-16","category-real-earth","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55127","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55136,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55127\/revisions\/55136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}