{"id":39400,"date":"2020-12-23T23:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T23:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39400"},"modified":"2020-12-24T04:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:35:02","slug":"blowing-dust-across-the-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39400","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust across the Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201223_goes16_dustRGB_Plains_blowing_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/tx_rgb-20201223_190255.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"645\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201223_goes16_dustRGB_Plains_blowing_dust_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/Dust_RGB_Quick_Guide.pdf\"><strong>Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0images\u00a0<em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0displayed signatures of blowing dust\u00a0<em>(brighter shades of pink)<\/em> moving southward across eastern Colorado and over the Oklahoma\/Texas Panhandle region on 23 December 2020. The dust source region appeared to be eastern Colorado, where wind gusts in excess of 60 knots were observed during the morning hours.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<em><strong>(below)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>showed the lighter tan colored signature of these areas of blowing dust.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201223_goes16_trueColorRGB_Plains_blowing_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_2020358_190117Z.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"645\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201223_goes16_trueColorRGB_Plains_blowing_dust_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Additional details of this event are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/satelliteliaisonblog.com\/2020\/12\/23\/12-23-2020-blowing-dust-and-blowing-snow\/\"><strong>Satellite Liaison Blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East)\u00a0Dust RGB\u00a0images\u00a0(above)\u00a0displayed signatures of blowing dust\u00a0(brighter shades of pink) moving southward across eastern Colorado and over the Oklahoma\/Texas Panhandle region on 23 December 2020. The dust source region appeared to be eastern Colorado, where wind gusts in excess of 60 knots were observed during the morning hours. 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