{"id":36893,"date":"2020-05-26T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36893"},"modified":"2020-05-29T03:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:33:39","slug":"heavy-rainfall-and-flash-flooding-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36893","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rainfall and flash flooding in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200526_goes16_visible_infrared_South_Florida_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/mia_vis-20200526_223620.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200526_goes16_visible_infrared_South_Florida_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16<em> (GOES-East)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed training and back-building thunderstorms that produced very <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200527_kmfl_pns.text\"><strong>heavy rainfall<\/strong><\/a> and flash flooding across parts of South Florida &#8212; particularly in the Miami (KMIA) area &#8212; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200526.html\"><strong>26 May 2020<\/strong><\/a>. Pulsing overshooting tops were evident, with cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -77\u00baC.<\/p>\n<p>The GOES-16 Total Precipitable Water product<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed clear-sky TPW values as high as 2.2 inches <em>(lighter shades of magenta)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200526_goes16_totalPrecipitableWater_South_Florida_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/mia_tpw-20200526_192612.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Total Precipitable Water product [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200526_goes16_totalPrecipitableWater_South_Florida_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Hourly images of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=global2&amp;timespan=48hrs&amp;anim=html5\"><strong>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the rich tropical moisture associated with a tropical disturbance that had resided over the region for several days.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200526_mimicTPW_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200526_mimicTPW_anim.gif\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to enlarge]\" width=\"644\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AMAZING <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Miami?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Miami<\/a> rainfall!<br \/>\n6.61&#8243; in just over the past 2 hours<br \/>\n7.22&#8243; so far today = 3rd wettest May calendar day<br \/>\n18.70&#8243; so far in May = WETTEST May on record since 1896.<br \/>\nAnd the training continues across Miami-Dade County. Flash Flood Warning until 9:30 PM. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PjTv0V5u1U\">pic.twitter.com\/PjTv0V5u1U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Seidel (@mikeseidel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeseidel\/status\/1265425397723934720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (above) showed training and back-building thunderstorms that produced very heavy rainfall and flash flooding across parts of South Florida &#8212; particularly in the Miami (KMIA) area &#8212; on 26 May 2020. Pulsing overshooting tops were evident, with cloud-top infrared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,16,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-microwave"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36893","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=36893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36909,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36893\/revisions\/36909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}