{"id":43682,"date":"2021-12-07T04:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=43682"},"modified":"2021-12-07T04:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T04:21:35","slug":"lake-effect-clouds-downwind-of-lake-sakakawea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/43682","title":{"rendered":"Lake effect clouds downwind of Lake Sakakawea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211206_goes16_nightFogBTD_daySnowFogRGB_Lake_Sakakawea_plume_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/nd_dsf-20211206_160118.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Night Fog BTD (10.3 &#8211; 3.9 \u00b5m) and Day Snow Fog RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211206_goes16_nightFogBTD_daySnowFogRGB_Lake_Sakakawea_plume_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As cold arctic air moved across the still-unfrozen waters of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Sakakawea\"><strong>Lake Sakakawea<\/strong><\/a> on 06 December 2021, a lake effect cloud plume was seen downwind (southeast) of the lake in GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_NightFogBTD.pdf\"><strong>Night Fog BTD (10.3 &#8211; 3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/QuickGuide_DaySnowFogRGB_final_v2.pdf\"><strong>Day Snow Fog RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In a comparison of NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB, False Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/polar_orbit_tracks\/data\/JPSS-1\/2021\/2021_12_06_340\/NA.gif\"><strong>1925 UTC<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>, the lake effect cloud plume was diminishing as winds across\/along the lake became lighter &#8212; and the unfrozen portions of Lake Sakakawea appeared dark in RGB imagery, with surface infrared brightness temperatures in the 1 to 2\u00baC range (darker shades of orange).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211206_1925utc_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_infrared_LakeSakakawea_ND_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/12\/211206_1925utc_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_infrared_LakeSakakawea_ND_anim.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB, False Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ok heat haters, this post is for you. It was a very chilly beginning to the work week across much of western and central ND. We dropped down to 2 above at the Bismarck Airport. Listed are some of the coldest overnight lows we&#39;ve seen so far this morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NDwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NDwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NDag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NDag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MWDQKslCxW\">pic.twitter.com\/MWDQKslCxW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NWS Bismarck (@NWSBismarck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSBismarck\/status\/1467873353390170117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cold arctic air moved across the still-unfrozen waters of Lake Sakakawea on 06 December 2021, a lake effect cloud plume was seen downwind (southeast) of the lake in GOES-16 (GOES-East) Night Fog BTD (10.3 &#8211; 3.9 \u00b5m) and Day Snow Fog RGB images (above). In a comparison of NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB, False [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43682","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=43682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43688,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43682\/revisions\/43688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}