{"id":28224,"date":"2018-05-30T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28224"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:26:01","slug":"tropical-depression-alberto-in-the-lower-ohio-river-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28224","title":{"rendered":"Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 view Tropical Depression Alberto over the lower Ohio River Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28225\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_DNB_30May2018_0722_0812steptoggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28225\" class=\"wp-image-28225\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_DNB_30May2018_0722_0812steptoggle.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day Night Band Visible (0.7 \u00b5m) Imagery from Suomi NPP (0722) and NOAA-20 (0812 UTC) over Tropical Depression Alberto (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 overflew tropical depression Alberto, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/npp\/na2018_05_30_150_npp.gif\">0722<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/NOAA20\/na2018_05_30_150.gif\">0812 UTC<\/a>, respectively (orbit paths from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/orbit_tracks.html\">this site<\/a>), on 30 May 2018, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moongiant.com\/phase\/05\/30\/2018\">near-Full moon<\/a> provided ample illumination for the Day Night Band imagery, shown above.\u00a0 A motion to the northeast is apparent.\u00a0 Convection developed far to the north of the storm as well, south of Chicago, and a streak of lightning occurs over Oklahoma in the later image.\u00a0 (For individual Day Night Band images in the loop, click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_SNPP_DNB_30May2018_0722UTC.jpg\">here<\/a> for Suomi NPP and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_N20_DNB_30May2018_0812UTC.jpg\">here<\/a> for NOAA-20)  A similar loop, below, shows the Window Channel (11.45 \u00b5m) from the VIIRS instrument on <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_SNPP_I05_30May2018_0722UTC.jpg\">Suomi NPP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_N20_I05_30May2018_0812UTC.jpg\">NOAA-20<\/a>.  A tip of the Hat to Will Straka, CIMSS, for the imagery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28226\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_SNPP_N20_I05_30May2018_0722_0812steptoggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28226\" class=\"wp-image-28226\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/TDAlberto_SNPP_N20_I05_30May2018_0722_0812steptoggle.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS Window Channel (I05) Infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) Imagery from Suomi NPP (0722) and NOAA-20 (0812 UTC) over Tropical Depression Alberto (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Added:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/JPSS-1\"><strong>NOAA-20 was declared Operational on 30 May 2018<\/strong><\/a>.  <strong>Welcome NOAA-20!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 overflew tropical depression Alberto, at 0722 and 0812 UTC, respectively (orbit paths from this site), on 30 May 2018, and the near-Full moon provided ample illumination for the Day Night Band imagery, shown above.\u00a0 A motion to the northeast is apparent.\u00a0 Convection developed far to the north of the storm as well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":28230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,49,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28224","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28238,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28224\/revisions\/28238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}