{"id":44548,"date":"2022-02-05T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=44548"},"modified":"2022-02-07T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T22:52:58","slug":"actinoform-clouds-near-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/44548","title":{"rendered":"Actinoform clouds near Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220205_goes16_visible_dayCloudPhaseDistinctionRGB_Bermuda_actinoform_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/act_vis-20220205_140117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images [click to play animated GIF |<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220205_goes16_visible_dayCloudPhaseDistinctionRGB_Bermuda_actinoform_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/QuickGuide_DayCloudPhaseDistinction_final_v2.pdf\"><strong>Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed actinoform clouds (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/bams\/85\/10\/bams-85-10-1585.xml\"><strong>reference<\/strong><\/a>) near Bermuda on 05 February 2022. The light shades of green exhibited by the narrow cloud bands within the actinoform features suggested that they were beginning to glaciate &#8212; and as one of those cloud bands (associated with a dissipating actinoform feature) moved across the island of Bermuda, it briefly produced light rain showers at the airport (TXKF). It should be noted that this is an unusual location to see actinform clouds; most examples tend to form over the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>A toggle between GOES-16 Visible and RGB images at 1401 UTC is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220205_1401utc_goes16_visible_dayCloudPhaseDistinctionRGB_Bermuda_actinoform_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220205_1401utc_goes16_visible_dayCloudPhaseDistinctionRGB_Bermuda_actinoform_anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images at 1401 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another example of actinoform clouds producing precipitation &#8212; over the Pacific Ocean, near Hawai`i &#8212; can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37380\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Margaret Mooney (CIMSS) for bringing these features in the Atlantic to our attention:<\/p>\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\">Cool actinoform clouds over the Atlantic today via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GOESeast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOESeast<\/a>. Learn more about these unique clouds (more common over the Pacific Ocean) on the CIMSS Satellite Blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KASniHX4Hd\">https:\/\/t.co\/KASniHX4Hd<\/a> Get updates at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SriPHwz4fC\">https:\/\/t.co\/SriPHwz4fC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZWO4utQ3Wy\">pic.twitter.com\/ZWO4utQ3Wy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; UW-Madison CIMSS (@UWCIMSS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UWCIMSS\/status\/1489986343010668546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) displayed actinoform clouds (reference) near Bermuda on 05 February 2022. The light shades of green exhibited by the narrow cloud bands within the actinoform features suggested that they were beginning to glaciate &#8212; and as one of those cloud bands (associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44548","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=44548"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44567,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44548\/revisions\/44567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}