{"id":22822,"date":"2016-12-21T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=22822"},"modified":"2016-12-22T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T01:00:27","slug":"2016-northern-hemisphere-winter-southern-hemisphere-summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/22822","title":{"rendered":"2016 Northern Hemisphere winter \/ Southern Hemisphere summer solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161221_meteosat10_visible_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161221_meteosat10_visible_anim.gif\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 Visible (0.635 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"636\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 Visible (0.635 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The 2016 Northern Hemisphere winter \/ Southern Hemisphere summer solstice occurred at 1044 UTC on 21 December. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eumetsat.int\/website\/home\/index.html\"><strong>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-10 Visible (0.635 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (above; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/geo-new\/#\/animation?satellite=met-prime&amp;end_datetime=latest&amp;n_images=4&amp;coverage=fd&amp;channel=01&amp;image_quality=gif\">source<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed the westward progression of the solar terminator (which separates daylight from darkness) at 3-hour intervals.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly the entire continent of Antarctica was illuminated by 24 hours of daylight, as seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below; <\/strong>also available as a 60 Mbyte<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161220-21_himawari8_visible_Antarctica_anim.gif\">animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em>. Full-disk images are routinely available at 10-minute intervals from Himawari-8 (and can be available as frequently as every 5 minutes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/\"><strong>GOES-R<\/strong><\/a> series).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161220-21_himawari8_visible_Antarctica_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/960x1280_H8F_B3_HIM08_VIS_ANTARCTICA_20-21DEC2016_2016356_104000_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>With the continuous daylight, Antarctic surface air temperatures from <a href=\"https:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>AMRC<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/aws\/index.html\"><strong>Automated Weather Stations<\/strong><\/a><em><strong> (below; <a href=\"http:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/view-data.php?action=view_image&amp;product=surface\/plot\/TA.GIF\">source<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> were seen to warm above 40\u00baF along the coast, and above -30\u00baF in the interior.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161220-21_antarctica_surface_temperatures_amrc_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/161220-21_antarctica_surface_temperatures_amrc_anim.gif\" alt=\"AMRC AWS station surface temperatures at 20 December (22 UTC) and 21 December (05 and 11 UTC) [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AMRC AWS station surface temperatures at 20 December (22 UTC) and 21 December (05 and 11 UTC) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Northern Hemisphere winter \/ Southern Hemisphere summer solstice occurred at 1044 UTC on 21 December. EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Visible (0.635 \u00b5m) images (above; source) showed the westward progression of the solar terminator (which separates daylight from darkness) at 3-hour intervals. Nearly the entire continent of Antarctica was illuminated by 24 hours of daylight, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,62,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antarctic","category-himawari-8","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22822","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=22822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22829,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22822\/revisions\/22829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}