{"id":34050,"date":"2019-08-14T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=34050"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:35:06","slug":"record-total-precipitable-water-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/34050","title":{"rendered":"Record Total Precipitable Water in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190814_00UTC_PANC_RAOB.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190814_00UTC_PANC_RAOB.GIF\" alt=\"Plot of rawinsonde data from Anchorage, Alaska [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of rawinsonde data from Anchorage, Alaska [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190814_00UTC_PAFA_RAOB.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190814_00UTC_PAFA_RAOB.GIF\" alt=\"Plot of rawinsonde data from Fairbanks, Alaska [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of rawinsonde data from Fairbanks, Alaska [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Total Precipitable Water (TPW) calculated from rawinsonde data at both Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska were all-time record maximum values at 00 UTC on 14 August 2019.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The 0 UTC upper air sounding for Anchorage had a precipitable water value of 1.76&#8243;. This easily exceeds the previous all-time record of 1.67&#8243; Aug 26, 1990. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlaskaWx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlaskaWx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Climatologist49\/status\/1161441404989652993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The 0 UTC upper air sounding for Fairbanks had a precipitable water value of 1.59&#8243;. This exceeds the previous all-time record of 1.57&#8243; July 13, 1971. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlaskaWx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlaskaWx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Climatologist49\/status\/1161439927931850752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The microwave-based <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=global2&amp;timespan=24hrs&amp;anim=html5\"><strong>MIMIC TPW<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong> <\/em>showed an atmospheric river of moisture moving northeastward toward Alaska during the 2 days leading up to the record-setting TPW values on the Anchorage and Fairbanks soundings. The global view suggested that some of this moisture may have originated from the northern periphery of the TPW reservoir associated with slow-moving <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/Typhoon_Krosa_track.png\"><strong>Typhoon Krosa<\/strong><\/a> in the West Pacific Ocean, being transported eastward then northeastward by a series of frontal waves (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190811_190814_surface_analyses_West_Pacific_anim.gif\"><strong>surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190811_190814_mimicTPW_global_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/global_comp20190814.000000_tpw.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190811_190814_mimicTPW_global_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190811_190814_mimicTPW_AK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/AK_comp20190814.000000_tpw.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190811_190814_mimicTPW_AK_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Precipitable Water (TPW) calculated from rawinsonde data at both Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska were all-time record maximum values at 00 UTC on 14 August 2019. The 0 UTC upper air sounding for Anchorage had a precipitable water value of 1.76&#8243;. This easily exceeds the previous all-time record of 1.67&#8243; Aug 26, 1990. @AlaskaWx \u2014 [&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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microwave"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050","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=34050"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34066,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050\/revisions\/34066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}