{"id":23418,"date":"2017-03-15T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23418"},"modified":"2017-03-17T21:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:43:55","slug":"winter-storm-from-the-upper-midwest-to-the-northeast-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23418","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images, with hourly plots of surface weather [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. **<\/em><\/p>\n

A winter storm produced heavy snow across parts of the Upper Midwest on 13 March 2017<\/strong><\/a>, and then merged with subtropical jet stream energy to help develop an intense and rapidly-deepening storm which affected much of the Northeast US during 14 March<\/strong><\/a> – 15 March<\/strong><\/a> (WPC storm summary<\/strong><\/a>). GOES-16 ABI<\/strong><\/a> Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images covering the 13-15 March period (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development and motion of this complex storm. .<\/p>\n

A closer view of the Northeast US on 14 March (below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed some of the complex banding structures associated with the deepening storm, and also showed the sharp gradient of precipitation type along the coastal areas. Notable weather impacts included a storm total snowfall of 48.4 inches at Hartwick, New York, a new all-time 24-hour snowfall accumulation of 31.1 inches at Binghamton, New York, 0.4 inch of freezing rain accumulation at Chesilhurst, New Jersey and a wind gust of 77 mph at Plum Island, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Water Vapor (6.9 um) images, with hourly surface weather symbols [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Some interesting features were also seen in the wake of the large Northeast US component of the storm. For example, a GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector<\/strong><\/a> provided 1-minute interval\u00a0 0.5-km resolution Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) imagery of lake effect snow bands streaming southward off Lake Michigan on 14 March, which produced heavy snow in parts of southeastern Wisconsin, northeastern Illinois<\/a> and northwestern Indiana (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface plots [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>, 6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> and 7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> Water Vapor images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed widespread mountain waves downwind of the southern Appalachians on 15 March.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Water Vapor images: 6.2 \u00b5m (top), 6.9 \u00b5m (middle) and 7.3 \u00b5m (bottom) [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>These mountain waves were responsible for a few pilot reports of moderate turbulence, two of which are highlighted below.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 Water Vapor (6.5 \u00b5m) image, with pilot report of turbulence [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 Water Vapor (6.5 \u00b5m) image, with pilot report of turbulence [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. ** A winter storm produced heavy snow across parts of the Upper Midwest on 13 March 2017, and then merged with subtropical jet stream energy to help develop an intense and rapidly-deepening storm which affected much of the Northeast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-16","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418","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=23418"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23499,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418\/revisions\/23499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}