{"id":39160,"date":"2020-12-08T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39160"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:52:36","slug":"persistent-snow-cover-in-oklahoma-and-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39160","title":{"rendered":"Persistent snow cover in Oklahoma and Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NOAA-20<\/a>

NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color and False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed a patch of snow cover that remained across parts of northwestern Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Panhandle and southwestern Kansas on 08 December 2020<\/strong><\/a>. This was residual snow cover from a winter storm that occurred 6 days earlier (on 02 December<\/strong><\/a> — NWS Amarillo<\/strong><\/a> | NWS Norman<\/strong><\/a> | NWS Dodge City<\/strong><\/a> | NOHRSC total snowfall<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

The GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Land Surface Temperature (LST) product at 1900 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed LST values in the 30s F (shades of cyan to blue)<\/em> over the patch of snow cover, in stark contrast to LST values in the 60s F (shades of green)<\/em> across adjacent areas of bare ground.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Land Surface Temperature product [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of hourly surface weather type as the middle-tropospheric low responsible for the winter storm moved slowly across the region on 02-03 December.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of hourly surface weather type [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 09 December Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"NOAA-20

NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB images on 08 and 09 December [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>In spite of afternoon temperatures rising into the 50s and 60s F over surrounding bare-ground areas, a 08 December vs 09 December comparison of NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the core of the residual snow cover remained intact — especially over Oklahoma — with minimal melting between the 2 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color and False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed a patch of snow cover that remained across parts of northwestern Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Panhandle and southwestern Kansas on 08 December 2020. This was residual snow cover from a winter storm that occurred 6 days earlier (on 02 December — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,45,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160","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=39160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39166,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160\/revisions\/39166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}