{"id":18593,"date":"2015-06-01T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18593"},"modified":"2015-06-03T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:55:14","slug":"water-vapor-animations-for-may-2014-and-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18593","title":{"rendered":"Water Vapor Animations for May 2014 and May 2015"},"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\/2015\/06\/GOES13_WV_May2015anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES13_WV_23May2015_0245.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 Imager 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor infrared channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>GOES-15 Imager 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor infrared channel images from May 2015<\/strong> (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Historically heavy rains fell over the southern Plains in May of 2015, with numerous stations setting record monthly rainfall marks.  For example, Oklahoma City reported 19.48&#8243; of rain in May 2015;  the previous record wet month was 14.66&#8243;, set in June 1989  (14.52&#8243; of rain fell in May 2013).  The three-hourly water vapor imagery, above (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES13_WV_May2015anim.mp4\">here for mp4 file<\/a>; the animated gif above exceeds 90 M), from GOES-13 shows repeated thunderstorm development over western OK and western Texas that subsequently moved east.  Persistent southwesterly flow is also apparent.  In comparison, three-hourly water vapor imagery from GOES-13 for May 2014, below (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES13_WV_May2014anim.mp4\">here for mp4 file<\/a>), shows less frequent convection and more northwesterly flow.  Widespread convection is much less frequent over the Plains in May 2014 (a month that saw 4.44&#8243; of rain fall in Oklahoma City).<\/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\/2015\/06\/GOES13_WV_May2014anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/06\/GOES13_WV_23May2014_0245.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 Imager 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor infrared channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>GOES-15 Imager 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor infrared channel images from May 2014<\/strong> (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The mean 6.5 channel GOES-13 Brightness Temperature for May 2015 was more than 2 degrees cooler than in May 2014 (237.2 K in 2015 vs. 239.6 K in 2014).  It should not be surprising that the top of the moist layer in 2015 was higher (cooler) than in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically heavy rains fell over the southern Plains in May of 2015, with numerous stations setting record monthly rainfall marks. For example, Oklahoma City reported 19.48&#8243; of rain in May 2015; the previous record wet month was 14.66&#8243;, set in June 1989 (14.52&#8243; of rain fell in May 2013). The three-hourly water vapor imagery, above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-13"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18599,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions\/18599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}