{"id":55353,"date":"2023-10-25T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=55353"},"modified":"2023-10-26T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:03:50","slug":"typhoon-lola-seen-from-himawari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/55353","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Lola seen from Himawari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Severe Tropical Cyclone Lola has formed in the southwest Pacific and is currently moving south west. As of 2023-10-25 at 21Z, it is located near Vanuatu at approximately 17\u00b0S, 167\u00b0E. Watch Lola move over 48 hours in RealEarth, which allows users to visualize full-disk data from geostationary satellites: GOES-East, GOES-West, and Himawari. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/bosai\/map.html#5\/34.5\/137\/&amp;elem=ir&amp;contents=himawari&amp;lang=en\">Himawari<\/a> carries the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI), which is a twin instrument to the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) that flies on GOES-East and West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1566\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2874 \/ 1566;\" width=\"2874\" controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/lolasouthpacific.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cyclone Lola in the Southwest Pacific as seen from Himawari, from 2023-10-23 at 18Z to 2023-10-25 at 18Z, every hour. Daylight frames show true color imagery while nighttime frames show Band 9 water vapor imagery. Viewers can recreate this animation using <a href=\"https:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/?products=HIMAWARI-B09.100,H-TrueColor-wgt.49&amp;center=-16.109153239219467,169.89257812500003&amp;zoom=5&amp;width=1180&amp;height=783&amp;basemap=satellite&amp;labels=line&amp;view=leaflet&amp;collection=RealEarth&amp;timerange=2023-10-23+18:00:00,2023-10-25+18:00:00&amp;timestep=1h&amp;animationspeed=93&amp;animate=true\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/?products=HIMAWARI-B09.100,H-TrueColor-wgt.49&amp;center=-16.109153239219467,169.89257812500003&amp;zoom=5&amp;width=1180&amp;height=783&amp;basemap=satellite&amp;labels=line&amp;view=leaflet&amp;collection=RealEarth&amp;timerange=2023-10-23+18:00:00,2023-10-25+18:00:00&amp;timestep=1h&amp;animationspeed=93&amp;animate=true\">RealEarth<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/55310\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/55310\">previous post<\/a> noted Lola&#8217;s lack of eye structure. You can see that eye clearly in the animation on 2023-10-23, but it dissipates by 2023-10-24 at 05Z. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/products\/sh0124prog.txt\">Discussion from the JWTC<\/a> notes &#8220;a drastic degradation in the structure&#8230; and a lack of convection near the center&#8230; The environment is clearly hostile with high southwesterly shear, mid-level dry air and lower SSTs having finally taken their toll on the system.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/products\/sh0124.gif\">Lola is predicted<\/a> to arrive at New Caledonia island on 2023-10-27 at 00Z with its winds weakened significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe Tropical Cyclone Lola has formed in the southwest Pacific and is currently moving south west. As of 2023-10-25 at 21Z, it is located near Vanuatu at approximately 17\u00b0S, 167\u00b0E. Watch Lola move over 48 hours in RealEarth, which allows users to visualize full-disk data from geostationary satellites: GOES-East, GOES-West, and Himawari. Himawari carries the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":55355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,62,53,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-himawari-8","category-real-earth","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55353","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=55353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55369,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55353\/revisions\/55369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}