{"id":13096,"date":"2013-05-26T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T23:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=13096"},"modified":"2013-05-28T02:20:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T02:20:03","slug":"unusual-late-season-noreaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/13096","title":{"rendered":"Unusual late-season Nor&#8217;easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/130525-26_g14_wv_noreaster_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-14 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"GOES-14 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/130525-26_G14_WV_NOREASTER_76.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-14 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An unusual late-season nor&#8217;easter storm produced heavy rainfall <em>(as much as 6.14 inches at Whiting, Maine)<\/em> and heavy snow <em>(as much as 13.4 inches at Mount Mansfield in Vermont and 34 inches at Whiteface Mountain, New York)<\/em> during the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20130524.html\" title=\"24 May 2013 daily weather map\">24 May<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20130526.html\" title=\"26 May 2013 daily weather map\">26 May 2013<\/a><\/strong> period. McIDAS images of GOES-14 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data <strong><em>(above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> displayed some interesting storm structures during the 25-26 May timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>AWIPS images of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/global2\/main.html\" title=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/a><\/strong> product <strong><em>(below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed that a long atmospheric river was transporting abundant tropical moisture northward, which was then wrapping inland around the storm circulation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/130525-26_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/MIMIC_TPW_20130525_1200.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A comparison of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images at 05:52 UTC or 1:52 AM local time on 26 May <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed cloud features associated with the storm as it was centered just off the coast of Maine. Strong northerly\/northwesterly winds along the back side of the storm <em>(gusting as high as 102 mph at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire)<\/em> were producing bands of orographic waves clouds over parts of Vermont and New York. This example helps to highlight the &#8220;visible image at night&#8221; capability of the VIIRS Day\/Night Band (given ample illumination by moonlight).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/130526_0552z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_ir_sfc_analysis_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/130526_0552z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_ir_sfc_analysis_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band abd 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (with overlay of surface analysis)\" class \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band abd 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (with overlay of surface analysis)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual late-season nor&#8217;easter storm produced heavy rainfall (as much as 6.14 inches at Whiting, Maine) and heavy snow (as much as 13.4 inches at Mount Mansfield in Vermont and 34 inches at Whiteface Mountain, New York) during the 24 May &#8211; 26 May 2013 period. McIDAS images of GOES-14 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel [&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":[40,16,49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-14","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096","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=13096"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13104,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions\/13104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}