March 23, 2022 - Tropical Cyclone Charlotte

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Tropical Cyclone Charlotte formed off the north-west coast of Western
Australia, approximately 840 km (522 mi) north-northwest of Exmouth on
March 21. By the next day, the storm carried maximum sustained winds of
about 92 mph (148 km/h) and was moving southwest off the Australian
over the Indian Ocean. That wind speed places the storm at Category 1
on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), as of the evening
of March 22 Tropical Cyclone Charlotte is facing a marginally
unfavorable environment as it turns southward and then southeastward
over the next two to three days. After that, the environment is
expected to become even more unfavorable, with increasing wind shear as
the storm moves towards the city of Perth. The JTWC expects that by
March 25 Tropical Storm Charlotte will begin to transition into a
subtropical system and quickly complete the transition to become a
gale-forced subtropical system with an expanding wind field.

On March 22, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of Tropical
Cyclone Charlotte near peak strength. Convective bands wrapped into a
small cloud-filled eye, creating an apostrophe shape typical of
strengthening storms. Clouds cover the town of Exmouth which sits near
the tip of North West Cape, a peninsula off Western Australia which is
barely discernable through the clouds.

Image Facts
Satellite: Aqua
Date Acquired: 3/22/2022
Resolutions: 1km (681.9 KB), 500m (1.9 MB), 250m (6.5 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-03-23

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