{"id":27320,"date":"2018-03-13T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=27320"},"modified":"2018-03-15T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T13:41:28","slug":"eastern-us-winter-storm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/27320","title":{"rendered":"Nor&#8217;easter off the east coast of the US"},"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\/2018\/03\/180312_goes16_water_vapor_band9_precip_type_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/G16_WV9_EASTERN_US_12MAR2018_960x1280_B9_2018071_180222_0001PANEL_00217.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images, with plots of hourly surface weather symbols [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Mid-level<em> (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> Water Vapor images, with plots of hourly surface weather symbols [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 Mid-level (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band09.pdf\"><strong>6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Water Vapor images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the development of a Nor&#8217;easter off the east coast of the US during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20180312.html\"><strong>12 March<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20180313.html\"><strong>13 March 2018<\/strong><\/a> period (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180312_180313_surface_analyses_anim.gif\"><strong>surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>). The storm produced blizzard conditions with snowfall amounts as high as 28.3 inches and wind gusts as high as 81 mph in Massachusetts (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180313_wpc_storm_summary.text\"><strong>WPC storm summary<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180314_kbox_pns.text\"><strong>Boston MA summary<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180314_kgyx_pns.text\"><strong>Gray ME summary<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180314_kcar_pns.text\"><strong>Caribou ME summary<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>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<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the cloud shied associated with the rapidly-intensifying Nor&#8217;easter on 13 March.<\/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\/2018\/03\/180313_goes16_infrared_surface_weather_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/G16_IR_EASTERN_US_13MAR2018_960x1280_B13_2018072_170223_0001PANEL_00205.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window<em> (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface weather type [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A closer view using 1-minute interval <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Sector<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images on 13 March<em><strong> (below)<\/strong> <\/em>included plots of hourly surface wind gusts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180313_goes16_visible_wind_gusts_Noreaster_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/G16_VISIBLE_NOREASTER_13MAR2018_960x1280_B2_2018072_171631_0001PANEL_00257.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly surface wind gusts [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images (above) showed the development of a Nor&#8217;easter off the east coast of the US during the 12 March &#8211; 13 March 2018 period (surface analyses). The storm produced blizzard conditions with snowfall amounts as high as 28.3 inches and wind gusts as high as 81 mph in Massachusetts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":27326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320","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=27320"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27366,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions\/27366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}