{"id":679,"date":"2008-07-04T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/679"},"modified":"2008-07-08T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T16:16:18","slug":"tropical-storm-bertha-and-desert-southwest-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/679","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bertha, and Desert Southwest Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.united-states-flag.org\/us-flag-640.gif\" title=\"Happy 4th of July!\" alt=\"Happy 4th of July!\" align=\"middle\" height=\"34\" width=\"68\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/07\/080704_bertha_ir_winds_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-12 IR images + QuikSCAT + ASCAT winds (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/07\/080704_bertha_ir_winds_anim.gif\" title=\"GOES-12 IR images + QuikSCAT + ASCAT winds (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"GOES-12 IR images + QuikSCAT + ASCAT winds (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"421\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As noted in the previous Blog entry,<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/graphics_at2.shtml?5day#contents\" title=\"Tropical Storm Bertha\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tropical Storm Bertha<\/strong><\/a> became the Atlantic Basin&#8217;s second tropical storm on <strong>03 July 2008<\/strong>. <em>Apparently, Bertha set a new record for the furthest east named storm formation in the tropics (classified as south of 23.5N) prior to 1 August since 1950. It became classified as a tropical storm at 24.7W which easily beat the old record set by Anna in 1969 (36.0 W)<\/em>.<br \/>\nMeteosat-9 IR images with overlays of QuikSCAT and ASCAT satellite winds <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic2\/\" title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site on following day (<strong>04 July 2008<\/strong>) showed some bursts of convection around the tropical cyclone, and verified the presence of tropical storm force winds. The CIMSS wind shear product <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> indicated that Bertha  existed in an environment of low wind shear, which was favorable for continued intensification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/07\/080704_bertha_ir_shear.jpg\" title=\"GOES-12 IR image + wind shear\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/07\/080704_bertha_ir_shear.jpg\" title=\"GOES-12 IR image + wind shear\" alt=\"GOES-12 IR image + wind shear\" align=\"middle\" height=\"421\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the previous day <strong>(03 July 2008)<\/strong>, the afternoon MODIS visible image and Land Surface Temperature product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>  showed mostly cloud-free conditions and very hot surface temperatures across much of the Desert Southwest region of the United States. Death Valley in California reached a high temperature of <strong>122\u00c2\u00ba F<\/strong>, the hottest day so far this summer season <em>(121\u00c2\u00ba F had been reached at that location a few times in June 2008);<\/em> other high temperatures in the region that day included <strong>118\u00c2\u00ba F<\/strong> at Bullhead City, Arizona and <strong>115\u00c2\u00ba F<\/strong> at Laughlin, Nevada. While the MODIS LST values were generally about 20-30\u00c2\u00ba F higher than the actual air temperatures that were measured in instrument shelters about 5 feet off the ground &#8212; the highest LST values seen on this day were near 150\u00c2\u00ba F <em>(darker red colors)<\/em> in parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona &#8212;   the LST product is still useful for depicting where the hottest areas might be <em>(since the coverage of stations that report air temperature over any given region might be  somewhat sparse)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/07\/080703_modis_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS visible + Land Surface Temperature (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/07\/080703_modis_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS visible + Land Surface Temperature images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"MODIS visible + Land Surface Temperature images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"454\" width=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in the previous Blog entry, Tropical Storm Bertha became the Atlantic Basin&#8217;s second tropical storm on 03 July 2008. Apparently, Bertha set a new record for the furthest east named storm formation in the tropics (classified as south of 23.5N) prior to 1 August since 1950. It became classified as a tropical storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-meteosat","category-modis","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}