{"id":374,"date":"2007-03-13T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/03\/13\/fog-in-florida-causes-multiple-vehicle-accident\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T23:04:41","slug":"fog-in-florida-causes-multiple-vehicle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/374","title":{"rendered":"Fog in Florida Causes Multiple Vehicle Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"AWIPS images of MODIS and GOES fog product\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/03\/070313_modis_goes_fog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"AWIPS images of MODIS and GOES fog product\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/03\/070313_modis_goes_fog.jpg\" alt=\"AWIPS images of MODIS and GOES fog product\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AWIPS images of MODIS and GOES &#8220;fog product&#8221; brightness temperature difference<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thick fog forming in southern portions of Osceola county in Florida was a factor in causing a multiple vehicle accident along the Florida Turnpike during the morning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20070313.html\"><strong>13 March 2007<\/strong><\/a>. AWIPS images of the MODIS and GOES fog\/stratus brightness temperature difference several hours before the accident <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> shows how the 1-km resolution MODIS product had better skill at depicting the location and coverage of the fog (compared to the 4-km resolution GOES product).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"AWIPS image of GOES 3.9 \u00b5m IR\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/03\/070312_g12_ir2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"AWIPS image of GOES 3.9 \u00b5m IR\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/03\/070312_g12_ir2.jpg\" alt=\"AWIPS image of GOES 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared data\" width=\"640\" height=\"620\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AWIPS image of GOES 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared data<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Smoke from small brush fires in that area on the previous day was thought to have helped to further reduce surface visibilities along with the fog; an AWIPS image of the GOES-12 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared channel <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> shows a &#8220;hot spot&#8221; <em>(red enhancement)<\/em> associated with a fire that was burning just west of the Florida Turnpike in central Osceola county at 21:31 UTC on 12 March. The GOES-12 3.9 \u00b5m brightness temperature at that particular hot pixel was <strong>+40\u00baC<\/strong>; however, most of the brush fires in that area were apparently too small in size to produce similar hot spots at other image times, and the CIMSS <a title=\"Wildfire ABBA product\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/03\/070312_1815_wfabba.jpg\"><strong>Wildfire ABBA product<\/strong><\/a> only indicated a few brief fire pixels in central Florida during the day on 12 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thick fog forming in southern portions of Osceola county in Florida was a factor in causing a multiple vehicle accident along the Florida Turnpike during the morning of 13 March 2007. AWIPS images of the MODIS and GOES fog\/stratus brightness temperature difference several hours before the accident (above) shows how the 1-km resolution MODIS product [&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":[6,13,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-fog-detection","category-goes-12","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45023,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/45023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}