{"id":65214,"date":"2025-06-09T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=65214"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:38:48","slug":"barbara-and-cosme-in-the-eastern-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/65214","title":{"rendered":"Barbara and Cosme in the eastern Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"800\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1340 \/ 800;\" width=\"1340\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_s20250609150522_e20250609235020_f54.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GOES-West True Color imagery, 1510 &#8211; 2350 UTC on 9 June<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GOES-West true color imagery, above, from the CSPP Geosphere site (<a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#playing:true;coordinate:2689649,1599502;zoom:4.9;satellite:goeswest;product:%5B%7B%22n%22:%22true_color_night%22,%22a%22:1%7D%5D;map_grid:on;num_frames:54;colorbars:true;start_time:2025-06-09T15:05:22Z;timeframe:Start%20Time;\">link<\/a>), shows Hurricane Barbara northeast of Tropical Storm Cosme in the eastern Pacific. Active convection is apparent over both storm centers during the course of the day. What does the future hold for these storms? MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (source), below, shows the storms within a band of rich moisture, but forecasts paths for both are towards the north and drier air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/mimictpw_epac_00to23UTC_09June2025.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/mimictpw_epac_00to23UTC_09June2025.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65216\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water, 0000 -2300 UTC on 9 June 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The predicted path of the storms is over much colder water.  Do not expect to hear much about these storms by the end of the week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1332\" height=\"991\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/SSTTrackBarbara_Cosme_toggle_09June2025.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65217\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SST Analyses and predicted paths (from 1800 UTC 9 June 2025) for Barbara and Cosme.  Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Both storms are within a band of relatively low shear as shown below.  It is increasingly cool SSTs along the storm paths, and an increasingly dry atmosphere, that will be controlling the intensity of these storms in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/BasinShear_2100_09June2025.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/BasinShear_2100_09June2025.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65218\" style=\"width:917px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">East Pacific Ocean basin shear analysis (850-200 mb), 2100 UTC on 9 June 2025 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>HYSAT and OCEANSAT scatterometers both sampled both storms on 9 June, as shown in the toggle below. HYSAT overflew the storms at 1358 UTC and OCEANSAT overflew at 2014 UTC. Both show the cyclonic circulation centers.  Barbara&#8217;s center is moving northwest whereas Cosme&#8217;s is moving west-northwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1331\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/HYSAT_1358_OCEANSAT_2014UTC_09June2025_toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65221\" style=\"width:917px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">HYSAT (1358 UTC) and OCEANSAT (2014 UTC) scatterometry on 9 June 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on these storms, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>.  In addition, the <a href=\"https:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">SSEC\/CIMSS Tropical Weather<\/a> site has dedicated pages for both <a href=\"https:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/summary\/summary.02E_2025.html\">Barbara<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/summary\/summary.03E_2025.html\">Cosme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-West true color imagery, above, from the CSPP Geosphere site (link), shows Hurricane Barbara northeast of Tropical Storm Cosme in the eastern Pacific. Active convection is apparent over both storm centers during the course of the day. What does the future hold for these storms? MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (source), below, shows the storms within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":65220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,47,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-18","category-other-satellites","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65214","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65222,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65214\/revisions\/65222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}