{"id":40325,"date":"2021-03-21T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T23:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40325"},"modified":"2021-03-22T22:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T22:53:38","slug":"surface-low-off-the-coast-of-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40325","title":{"rendered":"Surface low off the coast of Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210320_goes16_visible_infrared_FL_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/fl_vis-20210320_210116.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210320_goes16_visible_infrared_FL_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u00a0\u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images\u00a0<em><strong>(above) <\/strong><\/em>displayed the development of a small nor&#8217;easter-type low off the coast of northeastern Florida on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20210320.html\"><strong>20 March 2021<\/strong><\/a>. Onshore winds kept low clouds\/fog and light precipitation along the coast for much of the day &#8212; and surface wind gusts were as high as 41 knots at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbc.noaa.gov\/station_page.php?station=41009\"><strong>Buoy 41009<\/strong><\/a> just east of Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 Visible and Infrared images on the following day <em><strong>(below)<\/strong> <\/em>showed that the surface low had remained quasi-stationary as it transitioned to its occluded phase. Thunderstorm development persisted farther offshore over the warm waters of the Gulf Stream &#8212; a few overshooting tops exhibited infrared brightness temperatures of -60\u00baC and colder.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210321_goes16_visible_infrared_FL_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/fl_vis-20210321_180116.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and &quot;Clean&quot; Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210321_goes16_visible_infrared_FL_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The prolonged period of strong winds associated with this low pressure feature induced an upwelling of cooler water, as shown in a plot of Water Temperature at Buoy 41009 <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210321_buoy41009_water_temp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210321_buoy41009_water_temp.png\" alt=\"Plot of Water Temperature at Buoy 41009\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of Water Temperature at Buoy 41009<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and \u00a0\u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above) displayed the development of a small nor&#8217;easter-type low off the coast of northeastern Florida on 20 March 2021. Onshore winds kept low clouds\/fog and light precipitation along the coast for much of the day &#8212; and surface wind gusts were as high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40325","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=40325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40352,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40325\/revisions\/40352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}