{"id":19538,"date":"2015-09-15T18:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19538"},"modified":"2015-09-18T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T15:08:21","slug":"record-daily-rainfall-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19538","title":{"rendered":"Record daily rainfall in southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150915_KLAX_SFCMG.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150915_KLAX_SFCMG.GIF\" alt=\"Time series plot of weather conditions for Los Angeles International Airport [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time series plot of weather conditions for Los Angeles International Airport [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Some locations in southern California received <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150915_klox_rer.text\"><strong>record daily precipitation<\/strong><\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20150915.html\"><strong>15 September 2015<\/strong><\/a>. A time series plot of weather conditions for Los Angeles International Airport is shown above; the 1.80 inches of rainfall received there made it the wettest September day on record.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in the NWS Los Angeles record event report, the moisture source for this heavy rainfall event was the remnants of Hurricane Linda (<a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/storm_archive\/2015\/storms\/tracks\/15E.track.gif\"><strong>storm path<\/strong><\/a>); the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/global2\/main.html\"><strong>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product covering the period 06-15 September<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the evolution of the moisture associated with Linda, which originally tapped rich moisture from the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150906-15_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150915_01utc_mimic_tpw_epac.gif\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation]\" width=\"479\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>A closer look at the MIMIC Total Preciptable Water product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed how the moisture was becoming more concentrated just offshore, in advance of an approaching upper level trough and a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150915_00-12utc_surface_analysis_anim.gif\"><strong>decaying surface cold front<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/150915_mimic_tpw_LAX_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/MIMIC_TPW_20150915_1100.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation]\" width=\"479\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-15 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed that the cloud-top IR brightness temperatures were actually quite warm (&gt; -20\u00ba C) over coastal southern California during the period of the heavy rainfall event.<\/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\/09\/150915_goes15_ir_LAX_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/09\/960x1280_AGOES15_B4_G15_IR_LAX_2015258_120000.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some locations in southern California received record daily precipitation on 15 September 2015. A time series plot of weather conditions for Los Angeles International Airport is shown above; the 1.80 inches of rainfall received there made it the wettest September day on record. As mentioned in the NWS Los Angeles record event report, the moisture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,43,16,47,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-goes-15","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-other-satellites","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538","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=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19550,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions\/19550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}