{"id":4275,"date":"2010-01-02T23:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:38:51","slug":"the-first-month-of-winter-in-southern-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/4275","title":{"rendered":"The first month of Winter in southern Wisconsin"},"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\/msn_freeze_2009-2010_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS true color images (01 December 2009 to 02 January 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/12\/msn_freeze_2009-2010_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS true color images (01 December 2009 to 02 January 2010)\" width=\"480\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color images (01 December 2009 to 02 January 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sequence of MODIS true color images from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eosweb.ssec.wisc.edu\/cgi-bin\/eosdb.cgi\">SSEC MODIS Direct Broadcast<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(above; also available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/12\/msn_freeze_2009-2010.mov\">QuickTime animation<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong> showed a few snapshots from the first month of Winter 2009\/2010 across southern Wisconsin. You can see the transition from bare ground on 01 December&#8230;to a few narrow swaths of snow cover early in the month&#8230;to widespread deep snow cover on 10 December in the wake of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/mkx\/?n=120909_snow\">major winter storm<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;and finally to all the lakes freezing in the Madison area <em>(located at the center of the images)<\/em> on 02 January.<\/p>\n<p>December 2009 was the 5th snowiest December on record in Madison, with 26.8 inches falling <em>(the snowiest December was 40.4 inches, recorded in December 2008)<\/em>. The maximum snow depth on the ground at Madison&#8217;s Dane County Regional Airport was 13 inches on 09 December; however, a snow depth of 20 inches was reported on that day at McFarland in southern Dane county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of MODIS true color images from the SSEC MODIS Direct Broadcast site (above; also available as a QuickTime animation) showed a few snapshots from the first month of Winter 2009\/2010 across southern Wisconsin. You can see the transition from bare ground on 01 December&#8230;to a few narrow swaths of snow cover early in [&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":[12,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","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=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}