{"id":25882,"date":"2017-10-26T23:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T23:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=25882"},"modified":"2017-10-27T18:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:19:38","slug":"heavy-rain-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25882","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aided in part by precipitation associated with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?s=Irma\">Hurricane Irma<\/a><\/strong>, some areas of Florida have received record rainfall during the June-October 2017 period:<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tuesday&#8217;s 2.22&#8243; of rainfall at Melbourne pushed the total since September 1st over 3&#8243; ahead of the previous record wettest September-October <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dMdI43OkdI\">pic.twitter.com\/dMdI43OkdI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Melbourne (@NWSMelbourne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSMelbourne\/status\/923155217528623109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wettest June 1-Oct 31 (~wet season) on record (since 1911) for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Miami?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Miami<\/a>&#8211; yes it has been a wet 5 months (with more coming Saturday)! ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VmhSqkU7uO\">pic.twitter.com\/VmhSqkU7uO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Blake ? (@EricBlake12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBlake12\/status\/923584904989986817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/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\/2017\/10\/171026_goes16_visible_vegetation_SnowIce_FL_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/960x427_AGOES16_B235_G16_VIS_NIR_NIR_FL_26OCT2017_2017299_162220_0003PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left), Near-Infrared \" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left), Near-Infrared &#8220;Vegetation&#8221; (0.86 \u00b5m, center) and Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m, right) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <strong>(<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Near-Infrared &#8220;Vegetation&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band03.pdf\"><strong>0.86 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band05.pdf\"><strong>1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed that water was a strong absorber of radiation at 0.86 \u00b5m and 1.61 \u00b5m wavelengths &#8212; therefore wet ground, rivers, lakes and the oceans appeared dark in those images. This makes those two GOES-16 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\">ABI<\/a><\/strong> spectral bands useful for identifying areas of flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Two areas in Florida are noteworthy on the images: the St. Johns River in the northeast part of the state (where <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171026_FL_river_gauges.jpg\"><strong>Moderate Flooding<\/strong><\/a> had been occurring), and parts of South Florida (which had just received an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171025_24hour_precip.jpg\"><strong>1-5 inches<\/strong><\/a> of rain on\u00a0 the previous day).<\/p>\n<p>A closer look at those 2 areas using Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared &#8220;:Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m) images are shown below.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171026_1549utc_terra_modis_Visible_SnowIce_North_Florida_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171026_1549utc_terra_modis_Visible_SnowIce_North_Florida_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared :Snow\/Ice\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared :Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m) images, showing central and northeastern Florida [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171026_1549utc_terra_modis_Visible_SnowIce_South_Florida_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171026_1549utc_terra_modis_Visible_SnowIce_South_Florida_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared :Snow\/Ice&quot; (1.61 \u00b5m) images, showing southern Florida [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared :Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m) images, showing southern Florida [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>In stark contrast to the periods of heavy rain, a strong cold front brought clear skies and very dry air over Florida, as seen in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&#038;prod=global2&#038;timespan=48hrs&#038;anim=html5\">MIMIC Total Precipitble Water<\/a><\/strong> product <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171026_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/171026_mimic_tpw_anim.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to enlarge]\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This dry air evoked enthusiasm in least one South Florida resident:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazing Fall day across south <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Florida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Florida<\/a>&#8211; lowest precipitable water on record so early in the dry season- beautiful! HT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tuffiewx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tuffiewx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iAbSc6L3tA\">pic.twitter.com\/iAbSc6L3tA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Blake ? (@EricBlake12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBlake12\/status\/923599636455153664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aided in part by precipitation associated with Hurricane Irma, some areas of Florida have received record rainfall during the June-October 2017 period: Tuesday&#8217;s 2.22&#8243; of rainfall at Melbourne pushed the total since September 1st over 3&#8243; ahead of the previous record wettest September-October pic.twitter.com\/dMdI43OkdI \u2014 NWS Melbourne (@NWSMelbourne) October 25, 2017 Wettest June 1-Oct 31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,16,12,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-modis","category-terra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25882","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=25882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25888,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25882\/revisions\/25888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}