{"id":17492,"date":"2015-01-02T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=17492"},"modified":"2015-01-04T07:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T07:47:56","slug":"strong-winds-in-parts-of-northern-scotland-and-southern-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/17492","title":{"rendered":"Strong winds in parts of northern Scotland and southern Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 6.25 \u00b5m water vapor channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

A band of strong westerly\/northwesterly winds moved across northern Scotland and southern Norway on 02 January 2015 (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>), with a number of locations reporting wind gusts in excess of 50-60 knots. The highest wind gust seen was 64 knots at the Gullfax Platform<\/strong><\/a> (ENGC<\/strong><\/a>) in the North Sea at 16 UTC, with a wind gust to 63 knots at Oslo Fornebu<\/strong><\/a> airport (ENFB<\/strong><\/a>) at 21 UTC; in the morning hours, an aircraft was blown off the runway at Stornoway Airport, Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland (EGPO<\/strong><\/a>).\u00a0Ferry services between Kristiansand and Denmark as well as those between Sandefjord and Sweden were cancelled due to the strong winds. EUMETSAT<\/a> Meteosat-10<\/strong> 6.25 \u00b5m water vapor channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed that most of the stronger wind gusts occurred beneath a ribbon of drier air aloft, in which instability rain\/snow showers (and even thunderstorms) were developing.<\/p>\n

A Suomi NPP<\/strong> VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image at 10:57 UTC visualized using the SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a more detailed view of the instability showers and thunderstorms as they were developing over the North Sea. Along the west coast of Norway, thunderstorms were reported at Haugesund<\/strong><\/a>, \u00c5lesund<\/strong><\/a>, Flor\u00f8<\/strong><\/a>, and Bergen<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A band of strong westerly\/northwesterly winds moved across northern Scotland and southern Norway on 02 January 2015 (surface analyses), with a number of locations reporting wind gusts in excess of 50-60 knots. The highest wind gust seen was 64 knots at the Gullfax Platform (ENGC) in the North Sea at 16 UTC, with a wind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meteosat","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492","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=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17501,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions\/17501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}