{"id":45461,"date":"2022-03-28T21:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=45461"},"modified":"2022-03-28T21:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T21:41:36","slug":"goes-16-views-of-snow-squalls-associated-with-a-multi-vehicle-fatal-crash-in-schuylkill-county-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45461","title":{"rendered":"GOES-16 views of snow squalls associated with a multi-vehicle fatal crash in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/G16DCPD-20220328_1401_to_1501anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1304\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/G16DCPD-20220328_1401_to_1501anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45462\" \/><\/a><figcaption>GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB over Schuylkill County, 1401-1501 UTC on 28 March 2022 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A 50- to 60-vehicle crash over central Schuylkill County (in Pennsylvania), with fatalities, on north-bound Interstate 81 occurred at around 11 AM EDT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/schuylkill-county\/crash-closes-part-of-i-81-in-schuylkill-county-interstate-northbound\/523-64e19fed-cc65-4b33-9876-5b8dda164e34\">TV news report<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkok.com\/crash-involving-50-60-vehicles-on-i-81-in-schuylkill-county-mass-causality-incident-declared\/\">radio report<\/a>), which is 1500 UTC.  Day Cloud Phase Distinction, above shows the characteristic yellow\/green\/chartreuse shading that is associated with snow in cold air moving over I-81 in central Schuylkill County just before the reported time of the crashes.  A longer animation below (with sparse surface observations &#8212; note no observations in Schuylkill County) during the day shows ongoing snow squalls during the course of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/G16DCPD_Obs-20220328_1401_to_2026anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1304\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/G16DCPD_Obs-20220328_1401_to_2026anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45463\" \/><\/a><figcaption>GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB over Schuylkill County, 1401-2026 UTC on 28 March 2022, along with surface observations (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50- to 60-vehicle crash over central Schuylkill County (in Pennsylvania), with fatalities, on north-bound Interstate 81 occurred at around 11 AM EDT (TV news report; radio report), which is 1500 UTC. Day Cloud Phase Distinction, above shows the characteristic yellow\/green\/chartreuse shading that is associated with snow in cold air moving over I-81 in central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45461","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45467,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45461\/revisions\/45467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}