{"id":44574,"date":"2022-02-06T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=44574"},"modified":"2022-02-10T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T05:08:08","slug":"lake-erie-ice-floes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/44574","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie ice floes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220206_goes16_visible_surfaceWinds_Lake_Erie_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/G16_VIS_WINDS_LAKE_ERIE_29JAN2022_B2_2022037_180117_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME0000061.GIF\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with surface wind barbs plotted in cyan and wind gusts plotted in red [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220206_goes16_visible_surfaceWinds_Lake_Erie_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>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed widespread ice coverage in Lake Erie on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20220206.html\"><strong>06 February 2022<\/strong><\/a>. Increasing southerly\/southwesterly winds were helping to open numerous ice leads, resulting in the north\/northeastward drift of large ice floes across much of the eastern 3\/4 of the lake. A few large ice leads even opened up in the thicker ice that occupied the far western 1\/4 of the lake &#8212; which stranded 18 people from getting back to the shore near Catawba Island, Ohio, requiring their rescue by Coast Guard helicopter and air boat (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/coast-guard-rescue-operation-underway-lake-erie-ice-breaks-rcna15089\"><strong>media report<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A sequence of 3 VIIRS True Color RGB images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> offered a closer look at the ice leads opening up in the vicinity of Catawba Island around the time that the rescue event became necessary. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220206_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_Lake_Erie_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220206_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_Lake_Erie_anim.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS True Color RGB images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed widespread ice coverage in Lake Erie on 06 February 2022. Increasing southerly\/southwesterly winds were helping to open numerous ice leads, resulting in the north\/northeastward drift of large ice floes across much of the eastern 3\/4 of the lake. A few large ice leads even opened up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,53,45,49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44574","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=44574"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44586,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44574\/revisions\/44586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}