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March 6, 2021 - Tropical Cyclone Marian
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Tropical Cyclone Marian was falling apart as it spun over the Indian Ocean west of Australia on March 5, 2021. The Moderate Resolution Imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) acquired this true-color image of the storm on that same day. While Marian retained a cloud-filled center, the storm’s battle against wind shear had rendered Marian strongly asymmetrical, with convective banding pushed to the north and west of the center.
Marian formed as a tropical storm on February 26 and reached peak strength on February 28 when maximum sustained winds reached 115 mph (185 km/h) making it equivalent to a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Tropical Cyclone Marian weakened slightly but remained a Category-2 strength storm most of the time through March 2 before meeting with increasing wind shear and dropping to tropical-storm strength on March 3.
At 1500 UTC (10:00 a.m. EST) on March 5, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center advised Tropical Cyclone Marian was located about 1,192 miles (1,918 km) west-southwest of Learmonth, Australia and carried sustained winds of 40 mph (64 km/h). The advisory stated that at that time, the core of the system had been completely sheared apart and was in a very unfavorable environment, with high vertical wind shear and low sea surface temperatures. They expect Marian to dissipate on March 6. Tropical Cyclone Marian poses no threat to land.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Terra
Date Acquired: 3/5/2021
Resolutions:
1km (2.1 MB), 500m (5 MB),
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Tropical Cyclone Marian was falling apart as it spun over the Indian Ocean west of Australia on March 5, 2021. The Moderate Resolution Imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) acquired this true-color image of the storm on that same day. While Marian retained a cloud-filled center, the storm’s battle against wind shear had rendered Marian strongly asymmetrical, with convective banding pushed to the north and west of the center.
Marian formed as a tropical storm on February 26 and reached peak strength on February 28 when maximum sustained winds reached 115 mph (185 km/h) making it equivalent to a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Tropical Cyclone Marian weakened slightly but remained a Category-2 strength storm most of the time through March 2 before meeting with increasing wind shear and dropping to tropical-storm strength on March 3.
At 1500 UTC (10:00 a.m. EST) on March 5, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center advised Tropical Cyclone Marian was located about 1,192 miles (1,918 km) west-southwest of Learmonth, Australia and carried sustained winds of 40 mph (64 km/h). The advisory stated that at that time, the core of the system had been completely sheared apart and was in a very unfavorable environment, with high vertical wind shear and low sea surface temperatures. They expect Marian to dissipate on March 6. Tropical Cyclone Marian poses no threat to land.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Terra
Date Acquired: 3/5/2021
Resolutions:
1km (2.1 MB), 500m (5 MB),
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
