{"id":10630,"date":"2012-06-17T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2012-06-18T22:21:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T22:21:55","slug":"hot-temperatures-in-the-us-desert-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10630","title":{"rendered":"Hot temperatures in the US Desert Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/06\/120617_modis_vis_lst_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image + Land Surface Temperature product\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/06\/120617_modis_vis_lst_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image + Land Surface Temperature product\" width=\"480\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image + Land Surface Temperature product<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The daily maximum temperature reported by the cooperative observer at Death Valley, California was <a title=\"Regional Temperature ad Precipitation listing\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/06\/120616-17_rtp_vef.text\"><strong>119 F<\/strong><\/a> on <a title=\"17 June 2012 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20120617.html\"><strong>17 June 2012<\/strong><\/a>, which was the highest temperature in the Lower 48 states so far in the summer season. A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data with the corresponding Land Surface Temperature (LST) product <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed LST values as high as <strong>150 F<\/strong> <em>(darker red color enhancement)<\/em> in some parts of Death Valley <em>(which is located just east of the Superior Valley Gunnery Range, station identifier K4SU)<\/em>. While there is not a direct 1:1 correspondence between LST and the air temperature measured by a thermometer in a standard instrument shelter at a height of 5 feet off the ground, the LST product can still be useful in terms of locating important temperature gradients or identifying which areas of a particular county might be the warmest or the coldest.<\/p>\n<p>A 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red\/Blue\/Green (RGB) image from the <a title=\"SSEC MODIS Today site\" href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&amp;product=true_color&amp;date=2012_06_17_169&amp;overlay_sector=false&amp;overlay_state=true&amp;overlay_coastline=true\"><strong>SSEC MODIS Today<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that some patches of snow cover still remained at the highest elevations of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. A wide range in surface air temperatures was seen across the region, dependent on elevation: morning low temperatures at high elevation sites included 42 F at Tuolumne Meadows and 46 F at Lodgepole in California, and 45 F at Mt. Charleston, NV.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/06\/120617_modis_truecolor_CA_NV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/06\/120617_modis_truecolor_CA_NV.jpg\" alt=\"MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth)\" width=\"480\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The daily maximum temperature reported by the cooperative observer at Death Valley, California was 119 F on 17 June 2012, which was the highest temperature in the Lower 48 states so far in the summer season. A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data with the corresponding Land Surface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10633,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/10633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}