{"id":8394,"date":"2016-09-20T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:19:23","slug":"first-tropical-storm-seen-from-space-in-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/09\/first-tropical-storm-seen-from-space-in-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"First tropical storm seen from space in 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Day in Weather History<\/em>‘s Facebook page showed a photo of Tropical Storm Esther on September 20, 1061 as taken from the TIROS satellite. \u00a0As far as I can tell, this is the first time that a tropical storm was identified first by satellite. \u00a0Here’s the text accompanying the image:<\/p>\n

“September 20th, 1961 – On September 10th, the Television Infrared Observation Satellite observed an area of thunderstorms west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, suggesting a possible tropical cyclone. This storm is the first large tropical cyclone to be discovered on satellite imagery and would eventually become Hurricane Esther. On September 20th, Hurricane Esther, a Category 4 storm off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina began to slow down as it moved north-northeast well off the Jersey shore. The storm continued to weaken as it made a five-day loop south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, then moved to Cape Cod and into Maine on the 26th.<\/p>\n

The satellite image was Tropical Cyclone Esther on September 10th, 1961, two days before aircraft reconnaissance confirmed its existence.”<\/p>\n

Since then, we’ve watched hundreds of storms develop from overhead, and this has become the primary way of identifying storms long before they get to us. \u00a0We’ve come a long way, baby!<\/p>\n

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This Day in Weather History‘s Facebook page showed a photo of Tropical Storm Esther on September 20, 1061 as taken from the TIROS satellite. \u00a0As far as I can tell, this is the first time that a tropical storm was identified first by satellite. \u00a0Here’s the text accompanying the image: “September 20th, 1961 – On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-interesting-weather-images","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}