{"id":38702,"date":"2011-08-28T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/putting-the-eye-in-irene-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:44:25","slug":"putting-the-eye-in-irene-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/putting-the-eye-in-irene-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Putting the eye in Irene | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, hurricane Irene has grown as it approaches the United States. The NASA\/NOAA Earth-observing GOES 13 satellite has been keeping an eye on the storm, and images it has taken have been put together <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/6079012423\/in\/photostream\/\">into this dramatic video<\/a> showing Irene from August 23 at 10:40 UTC to 48 hours later&hellip; just a few hours ago as I write this:<\/p><p>Pay attention about 20 seconds into the video (August 23 at about 20:00 according to the clock at the top of the video). You can see the eye wall region burst into existence, and a few seconds later the eye itself suddenly appears. Also, a surge of white clouds appears to the right of the eye and wraps around the hurricane. That&rsquo;s where warm air has risen strongly, overshooting the cloud tops, and producing intense rainfall (5 cm\/hour <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hurricanes\/archives\/2011\/h2011_Irene.html\">according to TRMM<\/a>!). Overshooting tops, as they&rsquo;re called, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/blog\/archives\/8682\">happen frequently in tropical storms as they intensify<\/a>. For what it&rsquo;s worth, something like that happens in stars as well as hot plasma rises rapidly from under the surface, though astronomers tend to call it \"convective overshoot\". <\/p><p>Irene is currently a strong Category 3 hurricane (with ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nB3rI4SWfiFuH9IPM2U7RuJ0RgI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f8786_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nB3rI4SWfiFuH9IPM2U7RuJ0RgI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f8786_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f8786_P5BlPdOsnsk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f8786_pmXKA7TuwXw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, hurricane Irene has grown as it approaches the United States. The NASA\/NOAA Earth-observing GOES 13 satellite has been keeping an eye on the storm, and images it has taken have been put together into this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/putting-the-eye-in-irene-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}