{"id":589,"date":"2007-12-29T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/589"},"modified":"2007-12-30T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T21:11:24","slug":"another-subtropical-storm-in-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/589","title":{"rendered":"Another subtropical storm in the Atlantic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-12<\/a><\/p>\n

If you thought that Tropical Storm Olga<\/strong><\/a> was the last gasp of the 2007 North Atlantic basin’s Tropical Cyclone season, think again: GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel imagery (above; closer view<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> and 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel imagery (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a circulation southwest of the Azores on 29 December 2007<\/strong> (centered near 28\u00c2\u00ba North latitude, 47\u00c2\u00ba West longitude) that appeared to be acquiring subtropical characteristics<\/strong><\/a> as it began to produce gale-force winds<\/strong><\/a> and some convection (evident in this 500-m resolution MODIS visible image<\/strong><\/a>) within the northeastern quadrant of the disturbance.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-12<\/a><\/p>\n

===============================================<\/p>\n

\"Meteosat-8<\/a><\/p>\n

A Meteosat-8 visible channel image (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the circulation well off the coast of Africa at 12:00 UTC on 29 December. In addition, note the “hazy” appearance of the cloud-free region over and just south of the Cap-Vert<\/strong><\/a> region of northwestern Africa (not<\/strong> the larger sun glint feature seen farther south over the subtropical South Atlantic — the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) tracking product<\/strong><\/a> (below) <\/strong><\/em>suggests that this could be an area of airborne dust (yellow to orange enhancement)<\/em> moving westward from the Sahara desert across the far eastern Atlantic Ocean (a good deal of the yellow-to-orange signal across the rest of the North Atlantic is a “false positive” SAL\/dust signal).<\/p>\n

\"Saharan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you thought that Tropical Storm Olga was the last gasp of the 2007 North Atlantic basin’s Tropical Cyclone season, think again: GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel imagery (above; closer view) and 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel imagery (below) revealed a circulation southwest of the Azores on 29 December 2007 (centered near 28\u00c2\u00ba North latitude, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-12","category-meteosat","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}