{"id":17861,"date":"2015-03-05T20:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=17861"},"modified":"2015-03-08T01:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T01:13:56","slug":"rapidly-melting-snow-in-the-south-central-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/17861","title":{"rendered":"Rapidly-melting snow in the south-central US"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-13 (GOES-East)<\/em> 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed how rapidly the streaks and patches of snow cover melted across parts of the south-central US (primarily Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and adjacent states) on 05 March 2015<\/strong><\/a>. According to NOHRSC<\/strong><\/a>, morning snow depths (contour map<\/strong><\/a> | numerical snow depth values<\/strong><\/a>) were generally in the 2-4 inch range, with some sites reporting 5 inches on the ground.<\/p>\n

The narrow snow band in Kansas went through the Witchita area; a 15-meter resolution Landsat-8 0.59 \u00b5m panochromatic visible image from the SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server (below)<\/em><\/strong> provided a very detailed view of the snow cover in that area.<\/p>\n

\"Landsat-8<\/a>

Landsat-8 0.59 \u00b5m panochromatic visible image (with and without Google Maps labels)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed how rapidly the streaks and patches of snow cover melted across parts of the south-central US (primarily Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and adjacent states) on 05 March 2015. According to NOHRSC, morning snow depths (contour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,55,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-landsat","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861","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=17861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17867,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions\/17867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}