{"id":9469,"date":"2011-12-28T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2011-12-29T20:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T20:27:23","slug":"strong-winds-in-scotland-associated-with-the-passage-of-a-warm-seclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9469","title":{"rendered":"Strong winds in Scotland associated with the passage of a warm seclusion cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"EUMETSAT<\/a>

EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 High Resolution Visible (HRV) images<\/p><\/div>\n

EUMETSAT<\/a><\/strong> Meteosat-9 High Resolution Visible (HRV) images (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed the classic signature of a “warm seclusion<\/a><\/strong>“: a nearly cloud free eye-like structure at the center of the circulation. Surface station wind barbs (in knots)<\/em> are also plotted in cyan on the images.<\/p>\n

A similar eye-like appearance was seen on Meteosat-9 water vapor channel images (below)<\/em><\/strong> as the mature cyclone moved just north of the British Isles on 28 December 2011<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"EUMETSAT<\/a>

EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 water vapor channel images<\/p><\/div>\n

Hurricane force wind gusts were observed at Tiree, Scotland<\/a><\/strong> (station identifier EGPU),<\/em> with a peak gust of 69 knots (79 mph)<\/em> at 14:20 UTC (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Tiree,<\/a>

Tiree, Scotland (EGPU) surface reports<\/p><\/div>\n

Surface analyses from the NWS\/NCEP Ocean Prediction Center<\/a><\/strong> (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed the intensification and evolution of the cyclone during the day.<\/p>\n

\"Ocean<\/a>

Ocean Prediction Center surface analyses<\/p><\/div>\n

Warm seclusions are also sometimes observed with intense cyclones along the East Coast of the US, as in this 20 December 2009 case<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 High Resolution Visible (HRV) images (above) showed the classic signature of a “warm seclusion“: a nearly cloud free eye-like structure at the center of the circulation. Surface station wind barbs (in knots) are also plotted in cyan on the images. A similar eye-like appearance was seen on Meteosat-9 water vapor channel images (below) […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9481,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}