{"id":21258,"date":"2016-05-17T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=21258"},"modified":"2016-05-19T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:23:07","slug":"daily-record-maximum-precipitable-water-at-miami-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21258","title":{"rendered":"Daily record maximum precipitable water at Miami, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T to Brian McNoldy for sending this out on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Miami?src=hash\">#Miami<\/a>&#8216;s morning sounding observed 2.18&#8243; of precipitable water, breaking the previous 17May 12Z record of 1.97&#8243; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Kh4Yokovc\">pic.twitter.com\/7Kh4Yokovc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian McNoldy (@BMcNoldy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BMcNoldy\/status\/732577090843869184\">May 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hourly images of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/global2\/main.html\"><strong>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> (TPW) product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the northward transport of deep tropical moisture from the Caribbean during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20160516.html\"><strong>16 May<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20160517.html\"><strong>17 May 2016<\/strong><\/a> period, with TPW values near Miami (KMFL) around 55 mm or 2.17 inches at 12 UTC on 17 May.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/160516-17_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/MIMIC_TPW_20160517_1200.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precpitable Water product [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precpitable Water product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of the 00 UTC and 12 UTC Miami soundings <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the increase of moisture within the middle to upper troposphere that helped contribute to the daily record maximum TPW value of 2.18 inches at 12 UTC.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/160517_kmfl_raobs_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/160517_kmfl_raobs_anim.gif\" alt=\"00 UTC and 12 UTC Miami rawinsonde data [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">00 UTC and 12 UTC Miami rawinsonde data [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The northward surge of tropical moisture also helped to fuel the development of a large mesoscale convective system over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, as seen in 4-km resolution GOES-13 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m)\u00a0 imagery<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em>. Cloud-top IR brightness temperatures were as cold as -80\u00ba C <em>(violet color enhancement)<\/em> at times with this storm.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/160517_goes13_ir_GOM_mcs_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/US_IR_Sat_20160517_1637.png\" alt=\"GOES-13 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of 1-km resolution Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) images at 1632 UTC is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/160517_1632utc_terra_modis_visible_infrared_Gulf_of_Mexico_mcs_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/160517_1632utc_terra_modis_visible_infrared_Gulf_of_Mexico_mcs_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.0 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T to Brian McNoldy for sending this out on Twitter: #Miami&#8216;s morning sounding observed 2.18&#8243; of precipitable water, breaking the previous 17May 12Z record of 1.97&#8243; pic.twitter.com\/7Kh4Yokovc \u2014 Brian McNoldy (@BMcNoldy) May 17, 2016 Hourly images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (below) revealed the northward transport of deep tropical moisture from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-general-interpretation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21258","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=21258"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21266,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21258\/revisions\/21266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}