{"id":42398,"date":"2021-09-10T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=42398"},"modified":"2021-09-10T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:17:11","slug":"great-lakes-water-temperatures-in-early-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/42398","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes water temperatures in early September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSST_TrueColor-20210910_180623-1024x773.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSST_TrueColor-20210910_180623-1024x773.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSST_TrueColor-20210910_180623-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSST_TrueColor-20210910_180623-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSST_TrueColor-20210910_180623.png 1353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>NOAA-20 True-Color imagery over the Great Lakes, along with ACSPO SST values derived from VIIRS data, 1806 UTC on 10 September 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The early afternoon NOAA-20 overpass over the Great Lakes saw mostly clear skies, allowing for an accurate measurement &#8212; from satellite &#8212; of the lake surface temperatures, scaled in the image above to be between 55\u00ba and 75\u00ba F.  Western Lake Erie has the warmest temperatures (peaking just below 75\u00ba, but a warm plume also exists in southern Lake Michigan. The zoomed-in image below shows Buoy observations in\/around the lakes;  buoy observations were very close to satellite measurements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSSTZoom-20210910_180623-1024x773.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSSTZoom-20210910_180623-1024x773.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSSTZoom-20210910_180623-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSSTZoom-20210910_180623-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/ACSPOSSTZoom-20210910_180623.png 1353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>NOAA-20 SSTs along with Buoy observations, 1800 UTC on 10 September 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>True Color and ACSPO SST imagery are available for AWIPS via an LDM feed from CIMSS.  True-Color imagery is also available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/viirs-today\/\">VIIRS Today<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early afternoon NOAA-20 overpass over the Great Lakes saw mostly clear skies, allowing for an accurate measurement &#8212; from satellite &#8212; of the lake surface temperatures, scaled in the image above to be between 55\u00ba and 75\u00ba F. Western Lake Erie has the warmest temperatures (peaking just below 75\u00ba, but a warm plume also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":42399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42398","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42401,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42398\/revisions\/42401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}