{"id":4271,"date":"2010-01-02T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:16:15","slug":"40%c2%ba-temperatures-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/4271","title":{"rendered":"-40\u00c2\u00ba temperatures in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/12\/100102_modis_goes_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/12\/100102_modis_goes_ir_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong>  showed that large portions of northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota exhibited surface IR brightness temperatures colder than <strong>-40\u00c2\u00ba\u00c2\u00a0F (-40\u00c2\u00ba C)<\/strong> at 08:45 UTC (2:45 am local time) on <strong>02 January 2010<\/strong>. In northwestern Minnesota, the coldest IR brightness temperature values on the MODIS image were -45\u00c2\u00ba C, compared to -42\u00c2\u00ba C on the GOES-12 image. Note the significantly warmer signature of the Minneapolis\/St. Paul urban area, as well as the unfrozen waters of Lake Superior.<\/p>\n<p>A map of the 24-hour minimum temperatures <strong><em>(below; courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mesowest.utah.edu\/cgi-bin\/droman\/mesomap.cgi?state=MN&#038;address=&#038;type=&#038;noho=&#038;rawsflag=1\">MesoWest<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong> showed that 3 sites <em>(Pokegama Lake Dam, Gatzke, and Debs)<\/em> reported a low of -40\u00c2\u00ba across northern Minnesota on the morning of 02 January.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/12\/100102_min_temps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"24-hour minimum temperatures across northern Minnesota (courtesy of MesoWest)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/12\/100102_min_temps.jpg\" title=\"24-hour minimum temperatures across northern Minnesota (courtesy of MesoWest)\" width=\"480\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">24-hour minimum temperatures across northern Minnesota (courtesy of MesoWest)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data (above) showed that large portions of northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota exhibited surface IR brightness temperatures colder than -40\u00c2\u00ba\u00c2\u00a0F (-40\u00c2\u00ba C) at 08:45 UTC (2:45 am local time) on 02 January 2010. In northwestern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-12","category-modis","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","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=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}