{"id":2061,"date":"2009-03-02T23:59:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2014-12-15T22:33:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:33:26","slug":"lake-michigan-lake-effect-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/2061","title":{"rendered":"Lake Michigan lake-effect snow band, and Lake Superior ice"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 visible images<\/p><\/div>\n

A single-band lake-effect snow event dropped as much as 14.4 inches of snow in parts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/strong><\/a> on 02 March 2009<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-13 visible images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the narrow but intense band as it meandered across the far western portion of Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n

GOES-12 sounder visible images with an overlay of GOES-12 imager-derived CIMSS Mesoscale Winds (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that there was some low-level convergence helping to establish and maintain the band.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-12<\/a>

GOES-12 sounder visible images + GOES-12 CIMSS Mesoscale Winds<\/p><\/div>\n

A comparison of 250-meter resolution MODIS “true color” and “false color” images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a number of interesting features that were not as apparent on the GOES imagery above: (1) there were several narrow bands of snow cover (snow on the ground shows up as cyan-colored features on the false color image)<\/em> along the southern part of Lake Michigan (from a lake-effect snow band event on the previous day); (2) intricate structure to the ice floes in the southeastern part of Lake Michigan; (3) some of the lakes in southern Wisconsin were showing more of a darker blue <\/em>signature, indicating that the ice had lost it’s top layer of snow cover.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS 250-m resolution “true color” and “false color” images<\/p><\/div>\n

Farther to the north, several days of cold temperatures (overnight lows in the -20s to -30s F, with -31\u00ba F or -35\u00ba C<\/strong> at both Spincich Lake in Upper Michigan and Land O’ Lakes in northern Wisconsin on the morning of 02 March)<\/em> led to a significant increase in ice coverage over Lake Superior. GOES-13 visible images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the extent of the ice, which was not moving a great deal during the day due to fairly light winds. It was interesting to note that 2 separate lake vortices tried to form over Lake Superior, but the light winds and the thick ice conspired to prevent them from becoming well organized.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 visible images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A single-band lake-effect snow event dropped as much as 14.4 inches of snow in parts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 02 March 2009. GOES-13 visible images (above) showed the narrow but intense band as it meandered across the far western portion of Lake Michigan. GOES-12 sounder visible images with an overlay of GOES-12 imager-derived CIMSS Mesoscale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,11,8,12,45,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-sounder","category-goes-12","category-goes-13","category-marine-weather","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-satellite-winds","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","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=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17321,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/17321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}