{"id":7000,"date":"2010-10-18T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=7000"},"modified":"2010-10-19T23:31:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T23:31:43","slug":"super-typhoon-megi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/7000","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Megi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/101017-18_mtsat_vis_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MTSAT-1R 0.68 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/101017-18_mtsat_vis_anim.gif\" alt=\"MTSAT-1R 0.68 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-1R 0.68 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MTSAT-1R 0.68 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> tracked the eye of Super Typhoon Megi making landfall across the northern portion of the island of Luzon in the Philippines on <strong>17-18 October 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (<a title=\"MIMIC\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/marti\/description.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MIMIC<\/strong><\/a>) product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the well-defined eye of Megi prior to making landfall, along with the effect that the rugged terrain of Luzon had on the typhoon before it later emerged into the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/101017-18_mimic_megi_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/101017-18_mimic_megi_anim.gif\" alt=\"Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Terra MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image <em><strong>(below; <a title=\"Terra MODIS IR image (zoomed-in version)\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/101018_MODIS_IR31_ZOOM.GIF\" target=\"_blank\">zoomed-in version<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the eye and surrounding concentric eyewall structure of Megi at 02:30 UTC on 19 October &#8212; the coldest IR brightness temperature seen at that time was <strong>-82\u00c2\u00ba C<\/strong> <em>(purple color enhancement)<\/em> to the south of the eye.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/101018_MODIS_IR31.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Terra MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/10\/101018_MODIS_IR31.GIF\" alt=\"Terra MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTSAT-1R 0.68 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (above) tracked the eye of Super Typhoon Megi making landfall across the northern portion of the island of Luzon in the Philippines on 17-18 October 2010. The Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC) product (below) showed the well-defined eye of Megi prior to making landfall, along with the [&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":[12,20,26,31,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modis","category-mtsat","category-poes","category-synthetic-satellite-imagery","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000","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=7000"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7003,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}