{"id":9463,"date":"2011-12-28T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2011-12-30T21:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T21:54:59","slug":"tropical-storm-thane-06b-in-the-bay-of-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9463","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Thane (06B) in the Bay of Bengal, and Tropical Storm Benilde (04S) in the South Indian Ocan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MTSAT-1R<\/a>

MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n

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MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Category 1 Tropical Storm Thane (06B) in the Bay of Bengal, moving toward the east coast of India on 28 December 2011<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Contours of 850-200 hPa satellite-derived deep layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> overlaid on MTSAT-1R 6.75 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that Thane was in an environment of low wind shear, which favored some intensification prior to making landfall.<\/p>\n

\"MTSAT-1R<\/a>

MTSAT-1R 6.75 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images + Deep layer wind shear<\/p><\/div>\n

It is interesting to note that the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the northern counterclockwise<\/em> circulation of Tropical Storm Thane and the southern clockwise<\/em> circulation of Tropical Storm Four (04S) — each drawing moisture from the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).<\/p>\n

\"MIMIC<\/a>

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 30 December Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tropical Storm 04 S intensified in a similar low wind shear environment<\/strong><\/a>, becoming Tropical Cyclone Benilde in the South Indian Ocean. Benilde was forecast to intensify, with wind gusts up to 140 knots<\/strong><\/a>. Meteosat-7 visible\/shortwave IR images with an overlay of ASCAT scatterometer surface winds (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the structure of Benilde.<\/p>\n

\"Meteosat-7<\/a>

Meteosat-7 visble\/shortwave IR imagery + ASCAT surface winds<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed Category 1 Tropical Storm Thane (06B) in the Bay of Bengal, moving toward the east coast of India on 28 December 2011. Contours of 850-200 hPa satellite-derived deep layer wind shear overlaid on MTSAT-1R 6.75 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images […]<\/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":[23,20,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meteosat","category-mtsat","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","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=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}