{"id":39453,"date":"2020-12-29T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39453"},"modified":"2020-12-31T04:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:13:46","slug":"fog-stratus-in-the-snake-river-basin-of-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39453","title":{"rendered":"Fog\/stratus in the Snake River Basin of Idaho"},"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\/201229_goes17_nightFogBTD_visible_Idaho_fog_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/id_vis-20201229_170325.png\" alt=\"GOES-17 Night Fog BTD and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"645\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 Night Fog BTD and \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201229_goes17_nightFogBTD_visible_Idaho_fog_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-17 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_NightFogBTD.pdf\"><strong>Night Fog<\/strong><\/a> brightness temperature difference (BTD) and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the nighttime and daytime signature of a fog\/stratus layer that had persisted throughout much of the Snake River Basin in southern Idaho on 29 December 2020. Some sites along the Interstate 84 corridor were reporting freezing fog &#8212; and the surface visibility was restricted to less than 1\/4 mile at times in Boise (KBOI).<\/p>\n<p>During the preceding nighttime hours, the extent of fog\/stratus cloud within the Basin was well-illuminated by a nearly-full Moon (which was in the Waxing Gibbous phase, at 99% of Full) as seen in a Suomi NPP VIIRS image at 0856 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/id_viirs_dnb-20201229_085601.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/id_viirs_dnb-20201229_085601.png\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band <em>(0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) Night Fog brightness temperature difference (BTD) and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the nighttime and daytime signature of a fog\/stratus layer that had persisted throughout much of the Snake River Basin in southern Idaho on 29 December 2020. Some sites along the Interstate 84 corridor were reporting freezing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,80,49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-17","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453","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=39453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39462,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453\/revisions\/39462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}