{"id":27893,"date":"2018-05-01T18:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=27893"},"modified":"2018-05-02T01:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:18:37","slug":"valley-fog-and-mountain-snow-in-the-catskills-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/27893","title":{"rendered":"Valley fog and mountain snow in the Catskills of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Morning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GOESEast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOESEast<\/a> 1 minute mesoscale sector over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNY<\/a> showing a glimpse of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/valleyfog?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#valleyfog<\/a> in the upper Susquehanna &amp; Delaware river basins co-located with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/snow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#snow<\/a> in the higher elevations of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Catskills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Catskills<\/a>. Both will be gone later today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IDuVlQANvg\">pic.twitter.com\/IDuVlQANvg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Binghamton (@NWSBinghamton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSBinghamton\/status\/991281087480582144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As pointed out by NWS Binghamton, valley fog and higher-elevation snow cover was apparent on GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Visible imagery in the Catskills of southeastern New York on the morning of 01 May 2018. A closer view comparing GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221;\u00a0Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \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> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the dissipation of the valley fog, followed by the melting of the snow cover in higher terrain (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/180430_kbgm_pns.text\"><strong>snowfall amounts<\/strong><\/a> of up to 3-4 inches fell in the area on 29 April<strong>)<\/strong>. The Snow\/Ice imagery was helpful in discriminating between the brighter valley fog features and the darker snow cover.<\/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\/04\/180501_goes16_visible_snow_ice_NY_Catskills_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/G16_VIS_SNOWICE_MB_NY_FOG_01MAY2018_960x640_B25_2018121_110721_0002PANELS_00010.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m, left)<\/em> and Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; <em>(1.61 \u00b5m, right)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/180501_goes16_visible_snow_ice_NY_Catskills_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A 250-meter resolution Terra MODIS True-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image acquired from the SSEC Direct Broadcast ground station<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the remaining snow cover over the Catskills (near the center of the image) at 1539 UTC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/180501_1539utc_terra_modis_truecolor.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/180501_1539utc_terra_modis_truecolor.jpeg\" alt=\"Terra MODIS True-color image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"638\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS True-color image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning #GOESEast 1 minute mesoscale sector over #CNY showing a glimpse of the #valleyfog in the upper Susquehanna &amp; Delaware river basins co-located with the #snow in the higher elevations of the #Catskills. Both will be gone later today. pic.twitter.com\/IDuVlQANvg \u2014 NWS Binghamton (@NWSBinghamton) May 1, 2018 As pointed out by NWS Binghamton, valley fog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":27897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,74,12,45,71,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-terra","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893","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=27893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27899,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions\/27899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}