{"id":35,"date":"2006-09-03T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/09\/03\/sediment-flow-off-the-mid-atlantic-coast\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T15:06:12","slug":"sediment-flow-off-the-mid-atlantic-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/35","title":{"rendered":"Sediment flow off the Mid-Atlantic coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow-moving <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ernesto\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/atlantic\/storm\/HURPLOT2.GIF\"><strong>Tropical Storm Ernesto<\/strong><\/a> produced <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/blog\/ernesto_storm_report.text\"><strong>winds of up to  76 mph and rainfall totals of 10-11 inches<\/strong><\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"rainfall map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/tropical\/rain\/ernesto2006rain.gif\"><em><strong>map of rainfall totals<\/strong><\/em><\/a>) in the Norfolk\/Virginia Beach VA area during the past 1-2 days <em><strong>(below, right)<\/strong><\/em>, and caused widespread flooding problems across much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the US. Terra MODIS true color imagery <em><strong>(below, left)<\/strong><\/em> shows large amounts of sediment flowing offshore along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts today, as rain-swollen rivers and bays begin to drain into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS true color image\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/246\/2006-09-03_1545-1555_HNOR_010403_QKM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\" title=\"MODIS true color image\" alt=\"MODIS true color image\" src=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2006\/246\/2006-09-03_1545-1555_HNOR_010403_QKM.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Ernesto total rainfall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/tropical\/rain\/ernesto2006filledrainblk.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"137\" height=\"168\" align=\"right\" title=\"Ernesto total rainfall\" alt=\"Ernesto total rainfall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/tropical\/rain\/ernesto2006filledrainblk.GIF\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow-moving Tropical Storm Ernesto produced winds of up to 76 mph and rainfall totals of 10-11 inches (map of rainfall totals) in the Norfolk\/Virginia Beach VA area during the past 1-2 days (below, right), and caused widespread flooding problems across much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the US. Terra MODIS true color imagery [&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":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}