{"id":45278,"date":"2022-03-17T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=45278"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:28:14","slug":"blowing-dust-across-new-mexico-and-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45278","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust across New Mexico and Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/03\/220317_goes16_dustRGB_NM_TX_blowing_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/03\/tx_rgb-20220317_210117.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Dust RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/03\/220317_goes16_dustRGB_NM_TX_blowing_dust_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/Dust_RGB_Quick_Guide.pdf\"><strong>Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> highlighted the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust <em>(brighter shades of pink\/magenta)<\/em> across parts of New Mexico and Texas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20220317.html\"><strong>17 March 2022<\/strong><\/a>. Surface visibility was reduced to 1.5 miles at some locations, with wind gusts in the 40-50 knot range (a peak wind of 56 knots was recorded at Dalhart in the Texas Panhandle) .&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided another view of the blowing dust plumes <em>(shades of tan to light brown)<\/em>, as well as a few narrow plumes of smoke (dull <em>shades of white)<\/em> from wildfires that spread quickly due to the strong winds.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/03\/220317_goes16_trueColorRGB_NM_TX_blowing_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/03\/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_2022076_235617Z.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/03\/220317_goes16_trueColorRGB_NM_TX_blowing_dust_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust RGB images (above) highlighted the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust (brighter shades of pink\/magenta) across parts of New Mexico and Texas on 17 March 2022. Surface visibility was reduced to 1.5 miles at some locations, with wind gusts in the 40-50 knot range (a peak wind of 56 knots was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":45299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,132,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-geo2grid","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278","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=45278"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49105,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45278\/revisions\/49105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}