{"id":6718,"date":"2010-09-08T19:55:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2010-09-08T20:08:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T20:08:46","slug":"igor-forms-in-the-far-eastern-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6718","title":{"rendered":"Igor forms in the far eastern Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/IGOR_GOES12loop.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/IGOR_GOES12loop.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"IGOR_GOES12loop\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Igor has formed in the far eastern Atlantic, just south of the Cape Verde Islands.  GOES-12 imagery from today (above) shows a sheared system with persistent and abundant convection southwest of a low-level swirl of clouds.  (That low-level swirl is most evident in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/IGOR_1145_GOES12VIS.gif\">1145 UTC image<\/a>).  Igor formed just north of a region of significant shear (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/wm7shr.gif\">shown here<\/a>) and the shear may slow intensification of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Other environmental factors favor strengthening.  For example,  <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/latest72hrs.gif\">MIMIC total precipitable water<\/a> (from <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/tpw2\/global\/main.html\">this website<\/a>) shows abundant moisture surrounding the developing storm.  An analysis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/splitE.jpg\">Saharan Air Layer<\/a> shows little signal in the region of the storm.  Igor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/IgorSST.gif\">forecast path is over warm water<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2010\/al11\/al112010.discus.001.shtml?\">Forecasts from the National Hurricane Center<\/a> suggest slow strengthening as the system moves westward across the tropical Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Igor, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic2\">CIMSS Tropical Weather Website<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\">National Hurricane Center Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Added:  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/IGOR_3GOES_1445.gif\">here<\/a> for views centered on Igor from GOES-12, GOES-13 and GOES-15, satellites over the Equator at 60 W, 75 W and 89 W, respectively)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Igor has formed in the far eastern Atlantic, just south of the Cape Verde Islands. GOES-12 imagery from today (above) shows a sheared system with persistent and abundant convection southwest of a low-level swirl of clouds. (That low-level swirl is most evident in the 1145 UTC image). Igor formed just north of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,11,43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-12","category-goes-13","category-goes-15","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718","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=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6737,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions\/6737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}