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<\/a>Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color RGB images on 07 September and 11 September [click to enlarge]ep<\/p><\/div>A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images on 07 September (before Irma) and 11 September (after Irma) revealed a marked increase in turbidity of the shallow Continental Shelf<\/strong><\/a> waters off the coast of southern\/southwestern Florida and the Florida Keys. Irma moved through that region on 10 September<\/strong><\/a> as a Category 3 hurricane — and even though the center of Irma moved northward off\/along the west<\/u> coast of Florida (with a wind gust to 75 mph<\/a><\/strong> at Key West) , the strongest winds were recorded along\/near the east<\/u> coast of Florida: wind gusts to 92 mph<\/strong><\/a> and 109 mph<\/a><\/strong> and 142 mph<\/strong><\/a> — stirring up particulates within the shallow Continental Shelf waters.<\/p>\n * GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\n Large-scale (CONUS) VIIRS true-color before-Irma and after-Irma images are available here<\/a><\/strong> and here<\/a><\/strong>. Note that the cloud shield of Irma had expanded as far westward as Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma on 12 September ( GOES-16 true-color images<\/a><\/strong>) — in addition to large areas of dense smoke from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (blog post<\/a><\/strong>) which was drifting eastward across the northern US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images on 07 September (before Irma) and 11 September (after Irma) revealed a marked increase in turbidity of the shallow Continental Shelf waters off the coast of southern\/southwestern Florida and the Florida Keys. Irma moved through that region on 10 September as a Category 3 hurricane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199","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=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26153,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions\/26153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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![75 mph<\/a><\/strong> at Key West) , the strongest winds were recorded along\/near the east<\/u> coast of Florida: wind gusts to 92 mph<\/strong><\/a> and 109 mph<\/a><\/strong> and 142 mph<\/strong><\/a> — stirring up particulates within the shallow Continental Shelf waters.<\/p>\n* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\nLarge-scale (CONUS) VIIRS true-color before-Irma and after-Irma images are available here<\/a><\/strong> and here<\/a><\/strong>. Note that the cloud shield of Irma had expanded as far westward as Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma on 12 September ( GOES-16 true-color images<\/a><\/strong>) — in addition to large areas of dense smoke from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (blog post<\/a><\/strong>) which was drifting eastward across the northern US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images on 07 September (before Irma) and 11 September (after Irma) revealed a marked increase in turbidity of the shallow Continental Shelf waters off the coast of southern\/southwestern Florida and the Florida Keys. Irma moved through that region on 10 September as a Category 3 hurricane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199","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=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26153,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions\/26153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/170910_KEYW_SFCMG.GIF\"){kind=link}
![here<\/a><\/strong> and here<\/a><\/strong>. Note that the cloud shield of Irma had expanded as far westward as Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma on 12 September ( GOES-16 true-color images<\/a><\/strong>) — in addition to large areas of dense smoke from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (blog post<\/a><\/strong>) which was drifting eastward across the northern US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images on 07 September (before Irma) and 11 September (after Irma) revealed a marked increase in turbidity of the shallow Continental Shelf waters off the coast of southern\/southwestern Florida and the Florida Keys. Irma moved through that region on 10 September as a Category 3 hurricane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199","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=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26153,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions\/26153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/spottedcow.ssec.wisc.edu\/products\/viirs\/mosaic\/USA\/jpeg\/USA.npp.20170907.01_04_03_01_08.750m.jpg\"){kind=link}
![here<\/a><\/strong>. Note that the cloud shield of Irma had expanded as far westward as Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma on 12 September ( GOES-16 true-color images<\/a><\/strong>) — in addition to large areas of dense smoke from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (blog post<\/a><\/strong>) which was drifting eastward across the northern US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images on 07 September (before Irma) and 11 September (after Irma) revealed a marked increase in turbidity of the shallow Continental Shelf waters off the coast of southern\/southwestern Florida and the Florida Keys. Irma moved through that region on 10 September as a Category 3 hurricane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199","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=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26153,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions\/26153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/spottedcow.ssec.wisc.edu\/products\/viirs\/mosaic\/USA\/jpeg\/USA.npp.20170912.01_04_03_01_08.750m.jpg\"){kind=link}
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