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Re: Top hurricane sat photos of all time...
Impressive VIIRS image of SuperTyphoon Maria west of the Mariana islands...
Day/Night Visible Imagery VIIRS
07-06-2018 03:24am UTC
Day/Night Visible Imagery VIIRS
07-06-2018 03:24am UTC
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Rapidscan loop of Soulik's eye from Himawari-8.
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?data_folder=loop_of_the_day/himawari/20180821000000&number_of_images_to_display=200&loop_speed_ms=50
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?data_folder=loop_of_the_day/himawari/20180821000000&number_of_images_to_display=200&loop_speed_ms=50
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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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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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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.
Link to a larger version (7954 x 5539). (Due to hardware limitations, I am currently not able to create a full-resolution image which would be around 30000 x 20000)
A closer look at the eye with lots of intense convection surrounding it:
Link to the full resolution version (10 m per pixel) with a size of 8185 x 6057.
A full-frame shot of the eye. Most of the fine details are already visible in this image:
Link to the full resolution version (10 m per pixel) with a size of 3764 x 2786.
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):
The large waves in the north-eastern part of the eye are looking quite different:
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
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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Super Typhoon Jebi looked quite astonishing...
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Gotta add Mangkhut now.
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Two monsters prowling the oceans on opposite sides of the globe.
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Snatched from the WPAC thread. You just can't beat classic Super Typhoons over there. More of Mangkhut
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Category 5 SuperTyphoon Mangkhut.
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Super Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong) from this year.
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Two more to add to the list.
WPAC Kong-Rey
CPAC Walaka
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From Walaka discussion thread, I think it's one of the best TC photos ever taken
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2 SSD.NOAA Pacific Wide View Stitched together
Edited via Pixlr & Lightroom
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Here are some images I made of Super Typhoon Trami (2018)
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Here comes the third strongest CONUS landfalling hurricane on record
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Obligatory Yutu post:
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I think it is about time to bring back the lesser-known yet very impressive typhoons.
1981 Typhoon Elsie
1982 Typhoon Mac had a really standard and symmetrical shape. It is almost like the tropical cyclone symbol.
1985 Typhoon Dot
1987 Typhoon Thelma with a very large circulation.
Another 1987 typhoon. Typhoon Lynn with a Tip-like triangular circulation.
1998 Typhoon Zeb . Its picture speaks for itself.
1981 Typhoon Elsie
1982 Typhoon Mac had a really standard and symmetrical shape. It is almost like the tropical cyclone symbol.
1985 Typhoon Dot
1987 Typhoon Thelma with a very large circulation.
Another 1987 typhoon. Typhoon Lynn with a Tip-like triangular circulation.
1998 Typhoon Zeb . Its picture speaks for itself.
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