{"id":36639,"date":"2020-05-09T23:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36639"},"modified":"2020-05-12T01:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T01:06:41","slug":"midlatitude-cyclone-producing-snow-and-high-winds-across-the-upper-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36639","title":{"rendered":"Midlatitude cyclone producing snow and high winds across the Upper Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly surface weather type plotted in red (R=rain; ZR=freezing rain; S=snow; L=drizzle; F=fog) [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East) <\/em>Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the circulation associated with a midlatitude cyclone that moved southeastward from southern Canada across the Upper Midwest on 09 May 2020<\/strong><\/a>. This system brought a variety of precipitation to the region, including snow with several inches of accumulation<\/strong><\/a> in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Anomalously strong winds<\/strong><\/a> were associated with this storm, which produced peak wind gusts<\/strong><\/a> of 60 mph or higher in North Dakota and South Dakota — hourly surface winds with gusts are plotted on GOES-16 Water Vapor images (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of hourly wind barbs and gusts [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (below)<\/strong> <\/em>revealed the northwest-to-southeast oriented swath of fresh snowfall (brighter<\/em> shades of green)<\/em> from eastern Saskatchewan ad western Manitoba into north-central North Dakota. The edges of the snow swath began to rapidly melt during the day, due to the warming power of the early May sun.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 10 May Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>As the surface low’s occluded front<\/strong><\/a> moved across southern Wisconsin on the morning of 10 May<\/strong><\/a>, GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above)<\/strong><\/em> provided a nice depiction of of the brief period of dynamic cooling and transition from rain to snow as glaciated cloud tops (shades of green)<\/em> blossomed over the Madison (KMSN) area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the circulation associated with a midlatitude cyclone that moved southeastward from southern Canada across the Upper Midwest on 09 May 2020. This system brought a variety of precipitation to the region, including snow with several inches of accumulation in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639","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=36639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36645,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions\/36645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}