{"id":36982,"date":"2020-06-01T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36982"},"modified":"2020-06-03T03:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T03:34:36","slug":"thunderstorms-across-interior-alaska-and-the-seward-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36982","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms across Interior Alaska and the Seward Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed thunderstorms developing across Interior Alaska and the Seward Peninsula on 01 June 2020. The high satellite viewing angle — 73.6 degrees at Fairbanks — helped to accentuate the rapid ascent\/collapse of updrafts in developing thunderstorms.<\/p>\n

The corresponding GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures in the -55 to -59\u00baC range (brighter shades of yellow)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images at 2123 UTC and 2306 UTC (below)<\/strong> <\/em>provided a higher-resolution view of the thunderstorms. Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were as cold as -65\u00baC (darker shades of red)<\/em> at 2306 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images at 2123 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images at 2306 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed thunderstorms developing across Interior Alaska and the Seward Peninsula on 01 June 2020. The high satellite viewing angle — 73.6 degrees at Fairbanks — helped to accentuate the rapid ascent\/collapse of updrafts in developing thunderstorms. The corresponding GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982","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=36982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36989,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions\/36989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}