{"id":36470,"date":"2020-05-01T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36470"},"modified":"2020-05-01T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:22:10","slug":"nucaps-and-dry-air-in-the-upper-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36470","title":{"rendered":"NUCAPS and dry air in the Upper Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36471\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/G16ABI_NUCAPS_Toggle_20200501_1830.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36471\" class=\"wp-image-36471\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/G16ABI_NUCAPS_Toggle_20200501_1830.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 ABI Band 2 (0.64 \u00b5m, visible) and Band 13 (10.3 \u00b5m, infrared) along with gridded NUCAPS fields of 925-700mb Relative Humidity, Midwest Base Reflectivity and NUCAPS Sounding availability points (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A cloud band passing through the upper midwest on 1 May 2020, shown above in the GOES-16 ABI <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/G16ABIBand02-20200501_182943.png\">Visible <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/G16ABIBand13.png\">Infrared <\/a>imagery (toggled with NUCAPS products and radar), was accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/LowLevelRHField_Radar-20200501_182943.png\">radar echoes<\/a>. Would you expect that radar-indicated precipitation to reach the ground?\u00a0 Gridded NUCAPS fields (shown <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/LowLevelRHField_NUCAPSPoints-20200501_182943.png\">here <\/a>with NUCAPS Sounding availability points) show <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/LowLevelRHField.png\">very dry air in the lower troposphere<\/a> over eastern Wisconsin.\u00a0 Individual NUCAPS soundings, one over <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/LakeMichiganRacine.png\">Lake Michigan just east of Racine<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/SouthernGreenBay.png\">one over Green Bay<\/a>, toggled below, similarly show very dry air.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36477\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/NUCAPSSoundingToggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36477\" class=\"wp-image-36477\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/NUCAPSSoundingToggle.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NUCAPS Profiles over Lake Michigan and Green Bay (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cloud band passing through the upper midwest on 1 May 2020, shown above in the GOES-16 ABI Visible and Infrared imagery (toggled with NUCAPS products and radar), was accompanied by radar echoes. Would you expect that radar-indicated precipitation to reach the ground?\u00a0 Gridded NUCAPS fields (shown here with NUCAPS Sounding availability points) show very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":36475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nucaps","category-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36470","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=36470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36482,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36470\/revisions\/36482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}