{"id":9376,"date":"2011-12-17T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2011-12-20T04:33:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:33:31","slug":"tropical-storm-washi-strikes-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9376","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Washi (27W) strikes the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111215-16_mtsat_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/20111216.12.NWPacific.IRImageNHCEnhancement.png\" alt=\"MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images from the <strong><a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed a fairly compact cluster of cold convective cloud tops associated with Tropical Storm Washi as it moved westward toward the Philippines during the <strong>15-16 December 2011<\/strong> period. <\/p>\n<p>A closer view using <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tc\/description.html\" title=\"MIMIC microwave imagery\">MIMIC<\/a><\/strong> microwave imagery <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> also showed a relatively small area of enhanced brightness temperatures <em>(representing heavy precipitation)<\/em> crossing Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines on 16 December.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111216_washi_mimic_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MIMIC microwave imagery\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111216_washi_mimic_anim.gif\" title=\"MIMIC microwave imagery\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC microwave imagery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, AWIPS images of the <strong><a title=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/global2\/main.html\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/a><\/strong> (TPW) product <strong><em>(below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> revealed that Tropical Storm Washi was embedded within a long fetch of very rich tropical moisture, with TPW values in excess of 60 mm or 2.4 inches <em>(darker red color enhancement)<\/em>. This abundance of moisture helped to fuel over 10 hours of heavy rainfall, which resulted in widespread flash flooding and reports of over 900 deaths in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111216-17_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/MIMIC_TPW_20111216_1500.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above; click image to play animation) showed a fairly compact cluster of cold convective cloud tops associated with Tropical Storm Washi as it moved westward toward the Philippines during the 15-16 December 2011 period. A closer view using MIMIC microwave imagery (below) also showed [&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":[16,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-mtsat","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376","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=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}