{"id":327,"date":"2006-12-22T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/12\/22\/snow-cover-in-the-central-us-hudson-bay-nearly-frozen\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T16:16:40","slug":"snow-cover-in-the-central-us-hudson-bay-nearly-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/327","title":{"rendered":"Snow Cover in the Central US; Hudson Bay Almost Completely Frozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MODIS true color image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/2006-12-22_1734-1746_USWE_010403_1KM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"371\" align=\"middle\" title=\"MODIS true color image\" alt=\"MODIS true color image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/2006-12-22_1734-1746_USWE_010403_1KM.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MODIS true color imagery <em><strong>(<\/strong><strong>above)<\/strong><\/em> and false color imagery <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>  from <strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"22 December 2006 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20061222.html\">22 December 2006<\/a><\/strong> reveals the widespread snow cover resulting from the major winter storm that moved across the central US on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"20 December 2006 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20061220.html\"><strong>20<\/strong><\/a>&#8211;<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"21 December 2006 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20061221.html\"><strong>21<\/strong><\/a> December, creating blizzard conditions in Colorado and the adjacent High Plains states (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS hi-res image centered at Denver\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/356\/2006-12-22_1734-1746_HDEN_010403_QKM.jpg\"><strong>high-resolution image centered over Denver<\/strong><\/a>). A <a title=\"MODIS image fader (Java applet)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061222_modis_fader.html\"><strong>Java image fader<\/strong><\/a> allows you to discriminate between the snow cover and the cloudiness that was present across the region. Also of interest on this day is the fact that Hudson Bay in Canada is nearly completely ice-covered (<a title=\"MODIS true color image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/2006-12-22_1734-1746_HBAY_010403_1KM.jpg\"><strong>MODIS true color image<\/strong><\/a> | <a title=\"MODIS false color image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/2006-12-22_1734-1746_HBAY_020707_1KM.jpg\"><strong>MODIS false color image<\/strong><\/a> | <a title=\"MODIS image fader (Java applet)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061222_modis_fader_2.html\"><em><strong>Java image fader<\/strong><\/em><\/a>). Freeze-up in Hudson Bay normally is completed by early to mid December (for example, see <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nov-Dec 2001 Hudson Bay image animation\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/modis\/hudson_bay\/hudson_bay_freeze_anim.html\"><strong>November-December 2001<\/strong><\/a>) &#8212; so, <a title=\"Weather Underground WunderBlog\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/MargieKieper\/comment.html?entrynum=128&#038;tstamp=200612\"><strong>is this unusually late<\/strong><\/a>?<br \/>\n<a title=\"MODIS false color image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/2006-12-22_1734-1746_USWE_020707_1KM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"373\" align=\"middle\" title=\"MODIS false color image\" alt=\"MODIS false color image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/2006-12-22_1734-1746_USWE_020707_1KM.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MODIS true color imagery (above) and false color imagery (below) from 22 December 2006 reveals the widespread snow cover resulting from the major winter storm that moved across the central US on 20&#8211;21 December, creating blizzard conditions in Colorado and the adjacent High Plains states (high-resolution image centered over Denver). A Java image fader allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-modis","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}