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Re: Top hurricane sat photos of all time...

#321 Postby doomhaMwx » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:48 am

Impressive VIIRS image of SuperTyphoon Maria west of the Mariana islands...

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#322 Postby supercane4867 » Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:26 pm

CAT5 hurricane lane nearing Hawaii

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#323 Postby Hammy » Fri Aug 24, 2018 2:24 am

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#324 Postby SconnieCane » Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:19 am

Glad someone brought up Soulik. While not the most intense as typhoons go, that doughnut-hole eye was something to behold.
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#325 Postby Hammy » Fri Aug 24, 2018 2:09 pm

SconnieCane wrote:Glad someone brought up Soulik. While not the most intense as typhoons go, that doughnut-hole eye was something to behold.


The ones with the huge eyes are always fascinating as you can see all the individual mesovortices--another good one (though I can't find a gif) is Ophelia's radar loop in 2005.
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#326 Postby storm_in_a_teacup » Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:55 pm

WAcyclone wrote:In my opinion, the satellite picture of Hurricane Jose (taken on September 9 by Sentinel-2A) is one of the most impressive hurricane images of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season which just ended. It was the first time I have ever seen the eye of a tropical cyclone with such an incredible amount of detail. At 16:47 UTC, Jose was a category 4 hurricane with winds of around 125 knots and a pressure of 945 mb.

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A closer look at the eye with lots of intense convection surrounding it:

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A full-frame shot of the eye. Most of the fine details are already visible in this image:

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Below you can see some of the incredible details I have never seen before on hurricane satellite images. This part of the ocean surface has been under Jose's inner eyewall just a few minutes before the image was taken (the storm was moving NW):

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The large waves in the north-eastern part of the eye are looking quite different:

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Unfortunately, Sentinel-2 rarely captures such stunning tropical cyclone imagery since it has a revisit time of five days and only covers areas close to land. However, there is a second beast of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season that got captured by Sentinel-2: Hurricane Maria - even at category 5 intensity!
I'm currently processing the data of Maria and will post the images here or maybe even create a new thread for Sentinel-2 (and Landsat 8) images only. Needless to say, I've become quite fascinated by this kind of ultra-high resolution hurricane imagery :D


I literally just saw this post just now but *squee* that is incredible. Now I am trying to imagine what the textures of the different clouds would feel like if they were solid...and smaller. The CDO looks like a rough foam, kind of like degraded velcro. The outflow cirrus would feel like down...

This is totally *not* because I've been working on a story involving someone petting a miniature hurricane.
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#327 Postby StormChaser75 » Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:57 pm

Super Typhoon Jebi looked quite astonishing... :eek:
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#328 Postby 1900hurricane » Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:26 pm

Gotta add Mangkhut now.

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#329 Postby supercane4867 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:08 pm

Mangkhut

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Florence

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#330 Postby SconnieCane » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:16 pm

:uarrow: Two monsters prowling the oceans on opposite sides of the globe.
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#331 Postby Ntxw » Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:29 pm

Snatched from the WPAC thread. You just can't beat classic Super Typhoons over there. More of Mangkhut

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#332 Postby doomhaMwx » Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:03 am

Category 5 SuperTyphoon Mangkhut.

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#333 Postby StormChaser75 » Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:31 pm

Super Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong) from this year.

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Re: Top hurricane sat photos of all time...

#334 Postby Ntxw » Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:23 pm

Two more to add to the list.

WPAC Kong-Rey

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CPAC Walaka

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Re: Top hurricane sat photos of all time...

#335 Postby supercane4867 » Tue Oct 02, 2018 5:16 pm

From Walaka discussion thread, I think it's one of the best TC photos ever taken

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#336 Postby mrbagyo » Fri Oct 05, 2018 5:06 am

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Re: Top hurricane sat photos of all time...

#337 Postby StormChaser75 » Sun Oct 07, 2018 1:24 pm

Here are some images I made of Super Typhoon Trami (2018)
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#338 Postby supercane4867 » Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:56 pm

Here comes the third strongest CONUS landfalling hurricane on record

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#339 Postby Highteeld » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:50 pm

Obligatory Yutu post:
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#340 Postby TyphoonNara » Wed Dec 05, 2018 9:15 pm

I think it is about time to bring back the lesser-known yet very impressive typhoons.


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:uarrow: 1981 Typhoon Elsie


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:uarrow: 1982 Typhoon Mac had a really standard and symmetrical shape. It is almost like the tropical cyclone symbol.


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:uarrow: 1985 Typhoon Dot


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:uarrow: 1987 Typhoon Thelma with a very large circulation.


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:uarrow: Another 1987 typhoon. Typhoon Lynn with a Tip-like triangular circulation.


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:uarrow: 1998 Typhoon Zeb :eek:. Its picture speaks for itself. :double:
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