{"id":38745,"date":"2020-10-25T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38745"},"modified":"2020-10-26T17:12:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:12:44","slug":"record-setting-cold-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38745","title":{"rendered":"Record-setting cold in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/10\/201025_0915utc_suomiNPP_viirs_infrared_topography_Potomac_MT_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/10\/201025_0915utc_suomiNPP_viirs_infrared_topography_Potomac_MT_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) and Topography images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window <em>(11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Topography images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) and Topography images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed a pocket of cold air exhibiting a minimum infrared brightness temperature of -35.2\u00baC (-31.4\u00baF) in the vicinity of Potomac, Montana at 0915 UTC (3:15 am MDT) on 25 October 2020 &#8212; the overnight low air temperature at Potomac was -29\u00baF, which turned out to be the coldest officially observed air temperature for this early in the winter season for the Lower 48 states.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">???? It bears repeating. Potomac&#8217;s -29\u00b0F is the LOWEST TEMP measured at an official climate station ANYWHERE in the lower 48 so early in season IN ANY YEAR!<\/p>\n<p>Previous lowest by Oct 25:<br \/>\n-20\u00b0F at Babb 6 NE, Blackleaf, and Bowen, MT, 10\/24-25\/1919.<\/p>\n<p>Big H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Climatologist49?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Climatologist49<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iGCzJYgI6C\">https:\/\/t.co\/iGCzJYgI6C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Missoula (@NWSMissoula) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSMissoula\/status\/1320459131493306369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nAccording to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nohrsc.noaa.gov\/interactive\/html\/graph.html?station=POTM8&amp;w=600&amp;h=400&amp;o=a&amp;uc=0&amp;by=2020&amp;bm=10&amp;bd=22&amp;bh=6&amp;ey=2020&amp;em=10&amp;ed=29&amp;data=0&amp;units=0&amp;region=us\"><strong>NOHRSC<\/strong><\/a> site, Potomac had a snow depth of 18 inches that morning <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/potomac.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38756 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/potomac-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/potomac-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/potomac-768x521.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/potomac.png 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A toggle between Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) and Topography images (above) showed a pocket of cold air exhibiting a minimum infrared brightness temperature of -35.2\u00baC (-31.4\u00baF) in the vicinity of Potomac, Montana at 0915 UTC (3:15 am MDT) on 25 October 2020 &#8212; the overnight low air temperature at Potomac was -29\u00baF, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745","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=38745"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38762,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745\/revisions\/38762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}