{"id":41293,"date":"2021-06-27T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T23:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41293"},"modified":"2021-07-03T20:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:21:56","slug":"pacific-northwest-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41293","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Northwest heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/06\/210626_210627_goes17_shortwaveInfrared_surfaceTemperatures_WA_OR_heatwave_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/06\/G17_SWIR_TEMPS_PACNW_26_27JUN2021_B7_2021179_010117_GOES-17_0001PANEL_FRAME0000445.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-17 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface temperatures plotted in yellow [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"647\" height=\"518\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 Shortwave Infrared <em>(3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly surface temperatures plotted in yellow [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/06\/210626_210627_goes17_shortwaveInfrared_surfaceTemperatures_WA_OR_heatwave_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-17\u00a0<em>(GOES-West)<\/em>\u00a0Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of hourly surface temperature during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20210626.html\"><strong>26 June<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20210627.html\"><strong>27 June 2021<\/strong><\/a> period &#8212; the first 2 days of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave\"><strong>historic heatwave<\/strong><\/a> across the Pacific Northwest (caused by an anomalous <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/06\/210626_210627_500hPa_height_anomaly_anim.gif\"><strong>500hPa ridge<\/strong><\/a> over the region). Numerous high temperature records were set, including new all-time record highs for Portland OR (116 F), Seattle WA (104 F) and the entire country of Canada (121 F).<\/p>\n<p>GOES-17 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (<em><strong>below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that most of Washington and Oregon remained cloud-free during the daytime &#8212; and a smoke plume from the Lava Fire in far northern California was seen drifting northwestward (especially on 27 June).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/06\/210626_210627_goes17_trueColorRGB_Pacific_Northwest_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/06\/GOES-17_ABI_RadC_true_color_2021178_024117Z.png\" alt=\"GOES-17 True Color RGB mages [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"571\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 True Color RGB mages, 26-27 June [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/06\/210626_210627_goes17_trueColorRGB_Pacific_Northwest_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-17\u00a0(GOES-West)\u00a0Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above) included plots of hourly surface temperature during the 26 June &#8211; 27 June 2021 period &#8212; the first 2 days of a historic heatwave across the Pacific Northwest (caused by an anomalous 500hPa ridge over the region). Numerous high temperature records were set, including new all-time record highs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41293","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=41293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41371,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41293\/revisions\/41371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}