{"id":38688,"date":"2020-10-20T18:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T18:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38688"},"modified":"2020-10-21T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T01:42:14","slug":"thundersnow-in-south-dakota-and-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38688","title":{"rendered":"Thundersnow in South Dakota and Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/10\/201020_goes16_dayCloudPhaseDistinction_glmFlashExtentDensity_SD_thundersnow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/10\/sd_tssn-20201020_155115.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images, with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images, with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/10\/201020_goes16_dayCloudPhaseDistinction_glmFlashExtentDensity_SD_thundersnow_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/Day_Cloud_Phase_Distinction.pdf\"><strong>Day Cloud Phase Distinction<\/strong><\/a> Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images with a overlay\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/glm.html\"><strong>GLM<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vlab.ncep.noaa.gov\/web\/geostationary-lightning-mapper\/overview\/-\/asset_publisher\/hNLfUix1macb\/blog\/operational-utility-of-glm-flash-extent-density-on-june-1\"><strong>Flash Extent Density<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>displayed clusters of convection &#8212; some with brief bursts of lightning activity &#8212; which were moving eastward and enhancing snowfall rates from Watertown, South Dakota (station identifier KATY) into far western Minnesota on 20 October 2020. The resulting snowfall amounts included 6.0 inches near Watertown and 8.0 inches near Ortonville, Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Cloud Phase Distinction Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images with a overlay\u00a0of\u00a0GLM\u00a0Flash Extent Density (above) displayed clusters of convection &#8212; some with brief bursts of lightning activity &#8212; which were moving eastward and enhancing snowfall rates from Watertown, South Dakota (station identifier KATY) into far western Minnesota on 20 October 2020. The resulting snowfall amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,74,30,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-lightning","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688","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=38688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38693,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688\/revisions\/38693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}