{"id":26473,"date":"2017-12-26T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=26473"},"modified":"2017-12-29T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T23:31:08","slug":"record-setting-lake-effect-snow-event-at-erie-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/26473","title":{"rendered":"Record-setting lake effect snow event at Erie, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/12\/171225-26_goes16_infrared_KERI_les_event_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/960x1280_AGOES16_B13_G16_IR_KERI_LES_MESO_25_26DEC2017_2017359_172833_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"1-minute GOES-16 &quot;Clean&quot; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports plotted in cyan\/yellow [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports plotted in cyan\/yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images centered over Lake Erie<em><strong> (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the evolution of lake effect snow bands on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20171225.html\">25 December<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20171226.html\">26 December 2017<\/a><\/strong>, which produced very heavy snowfall at locations such as Erie, Pennsylvania <em>(station identifier KERI);<\/em> a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\">Mesoscale Sector<\/a><\/strong> provided images at 1-minute intervals. Some noteworthy snowfall records were set at Erie PA:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With an additional 3.5&#8243; of snow at the Erie, PA airport as of 5PM, this brings the two day (12\/25-26) total up to 58&#8243; and the storm total (From 7PM Christmas Eve thru 5PM 12\/26) up to 60.0&#8243;. Heavy snow continues to fall. Here is a look at some of the records. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pawx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pawx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BN5txOpByZ\">pic.twitter.com\/BN5txOpByZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Cleveland (@NWSCLE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSCLE\/status\/945792581618761730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(<strong>27 December Update<\/strong>: additional lake effect snow at Erie on 27 December brought the final storm total accumulation to <strong>65.1<\/strong> inches: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/cle\/event_20171225-20171227_Erie_Snow\">NWS Cleveland summary<\/a><\/strong>. NOHRSC plots showed a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/171224_171228_nohrsc_snow_depth_reports_Erie_PA_anim.gif\">maximum snow depth of 49 inches<\/a><\/strong> just southwest of downtown Erie; the maximum snow depth at Erie International Airport was <strong>28<\/strong> inches on 26 December, which was still less than their all-time record snow depth of <strong>39<\/strong> inches on 21 December 1989)<\/p>\n<p>A sequence of Infrared Window images captured by Terra\/Aqua MODIS (11.0 \u00b5m) and Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 \u00b5m) is shown below. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures associated with the dominant lake effect snow bands were in the -30 to -35 \u00baC range <em>(dark blue to pale green color enhancement),<\/em> similar to what was seen in the GOES-16 Infrared Window imagery.<\/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\/12\/171225-26_modis_viirs_infrared_KERI_les_event_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/171225-26_modis_viirs_infrared_KERI_les_event_anim.gif\" alt=\"Infrared Window images from Terra\/Aqua MODIS (11.0 \u00b5m) and Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 \u00b5m), with surface reports plotted in yellow [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infrared Window images from Terra\/Aqua MODIS (11.0 \u00b5m) and Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 \u00b5m), with surface reports plotted in yellow [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Farther to the northeast, these Lake Erie lake effect bands also produced significant snowfall in far southwestern New York, with 32 inches reported at Perrysburg <em>(located 20 miles west of Dunkirk, station identifier KDKK).<\/em> In addition, lake effect snow bands over Lake Ontario were responsible for even higher snowfall amounts:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Updated storm total snowfall for:<br \/>\nPerrysburg off of Lake Erie = 32.0&#8243;<br \/>\n8 N Redfield off of Lake Ontario = 56.9&#8243; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3cngvFZRR7\">pic.twitter.com\/3cngvFZRR7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Buffalo (@NWSBUFFALO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSBUFFALO\/status\/945806013076295681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\n1-minute GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the lake effect snow bands over Lake Ontario on 26 December.<\/p>\n<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\/12\/171226_goes16_visible_Lake_Ontario_les_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/960x1280_AGOES16_B2_G16_VIS_LAKE_ONTARIO_MESO_25_26DEC2017_2017360_193333_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"1-minute GOES-16 &quot;Red&quot; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images centered over Lake Erie (above) showed the evolution of lake effect snow bands on 25 December &#8211; 26 December 2017, which produced very heavy snowfall at locations such as Erie, Pennsylvania (station identifier KERI); a Mesoscale Sector provided images at 1-minute intervals. Some noteworthy snowfall records were set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,74,12,49,71,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-suomi_npp","category-terra","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473","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=26473"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26500,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26473\/revisions\/26500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}