{"id":15715,"date":"2014-05-16T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15715"},"modified":"2014-05-17T01:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T01:50:55","slug":"record-late-season-snow-at-rockford-ilinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15715","title":{"rendered":"Second-latest snowfall on record at Rockford, Ilinois"},"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\/2014\/05\/140515-16_goes13_wv_upper_midwest_low_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/US_Water_Vapor_20140516_1330.png\" alt=\"GOES-13 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the <a title=\"NWS Chicago news story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/news\/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=lot&amp;storyid=102284&amp;source=0\"><strong>NWS Chicago<\/strong><\/a>, Rockford Illinois had their second-latest snowfall on record during the morning of 16 May 2014. AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the distinct signature of the center of the upper-level low that moved southeastward across Iowa and Illinois during the 15-16 May period.<\/p>\n<p>The relatively dry &#8220;eye-like&#8221; signature of the center of the upper-level low also showed up well on 1-km resolution Terra and Aqua MODIS 6.7 \u00b5m water vapor channel imagery <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140515-16_modis_water_vapor_upper_midwest_storm_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140515-16_modis_water_vapor_upper_midwest_storm_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra and Aqua MODIS 6.7 \u00b5m water vapor channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra and Aqua MODIS 6.7 \u00b5m water vapor channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Widespread convective features could be seen beneath the upper-level low on 375-meter resolution <em>(projected onto a 1-km AWIPS grid)<\/em> Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140515-16_suomi_npp_viirs_visible_upper_midwest_storm_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140515-16_suomi_npp_viirs_visible_upper_midwest_storm_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00b5m visible channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NWS Chicago, Rockford Illinois had their second-latest snowfall on record during the morning of 16 May 2014. AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the distinct signature of the center of the upper-level low that moved southeastward across Iowa and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-modis","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715","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=15715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15720,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions\/15720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}