{"id":14178,"date":"2013-10-19T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=14178"},"modified":"2013-10-22T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T18:09:10","slug":"mesoscale-bands-of-snow-cover-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/14178","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale bands of snow cover in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/10\/131019_0833z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_fog_ir_KS_snowcover_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band, IR BTD &quot;Fog\/Stratus Product&quot;, and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band, IR BTD &quot;Fog\/Stratus Product&quot;, and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/10\/131019_0833z_suomi_npp_viirs_dnb_fog_ir_KS_snowcover_anim.gif\" width=\"479\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band, IR BTD &#8220;Fog\/Stratus Product&#8221;, and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Parts of Kansas received up to 5-6 inches of snowfall on <a title=\"18 October 2013 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20131018.html\"><strong>18 October 2013<\/strong><\/a> (<a title=\"NWS Local Storm Reports\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/10\/131018_kansas_snowfall_reports.text\"><strong>NWS Local Storm Reports<\/strong><\/a>). The following night, after the clouds associated with the storm system had moved eastward, the southwest-to-northeast oriented bands of snow cover could be clearly seen on an AWIPS image of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band data at 08:33 UTC or 3:33 AM local time <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>. Due to ample illumination from a Full Moon, the bands of fresh snow appeared quite bright, as did the back edge of the stratus cloud deck that covered far eastern Kansas and western Missouri <em>(which showed up well on the IR brightness temperature difference &#8220;fog\/stratus product&#8221; image)<\/em>. A thin patch of mid-level clouds was also moving over north-central Kansas &#8212; the 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR brightness temperatures of that cloud feature were generally warmer than -20\u00c2\u00ba C <em>(cyan color enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After sunrise on the next day (19 October), GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the bands of snow cover melted rather quickly, due to the relatively high October sun angle.<\/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\/10\/131019_g13_vis_KS_snowcover_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/10\/131019_G13_VIS_KS_SNOWCOVER_02.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of Kansas received up to 5-6 inches of snowfall on 18 October 2013 (NWS Local Storm Reports). The following night, after the clouds associated with the storm system had moved eastward, the southwest-to-northeast oriented bands of snow cover could be clearly seen on an AWIPS image of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178","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=14178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14178\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}