{"id":47297,"date":"2022-07-21T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=47297"},"modified":"2022-07-22T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:03:55","slug":"clear-skies-over-the-great-lakes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/47297","title":{"rendered":"Clear skies over the Great Lakes"},"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\/07\/VIIRSTrueColorSST-20220721_1819toggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1524\" height=\"969\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/VIIRSTrueColorSST-20220721_1819toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47298\" \/><\/a><figcaption>NOAA-20 VIIRS True-Color Imagery along with derived ACPSO SSTs and Surface Buoy Plots, all ca. 1820 UTC on 21 July 2022 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NOAA-20&#8217;s afternoon path on 21 July 2022 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/polar_orbit_tracks\/data\/JPSS-1\/2022\/2022_07_21_202\/NA.gif\">here<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/datacenter\/polar_orbit_tracks\/#region:North%20America;\">this site<\/a>) allowed for a complete view of the Great Lakes, as shown <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/TrueColor-20220721_181919.png\">here<\/a>, and mostly clear skies meant that ACSPO Lake Surface Temperatures were produced; these are <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/TrueColorSST-20220721_181919.png\">here<\/a>, and also included in the animation above that also includes <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/TrueColorBuoys-20220721_181919.png\">mid-lake buoy observations<\/a>.  Lake Superior is still quite chilly &#8212; surface temperatures over a large part of the lake hover <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/TrueColorSSTBuoys-20220721_181919.png\">near 40<sup>o<\/sup> F<\/a>!  These surface temperature are below normal (<a href=\"https:\/\/coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov\/statistic\/pdf\/all_year_glsea_avg_s.pdf\">link<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov\/statistic\/statistic.html\">this site<\/a>) Warmest Great Lakes temperatures are (as is also typical) over western Lake Erie, where values are in the low 80s (<sup>o<\/sup>F).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA-20&#8217;s afternoon path on 21 July 2022 (here, from this site) allowed for a complete view of the Great Lakes, as shown here, and mostly clear skies meant that ACSPO Lake Surface Temperatures were produced; these are here, and also included in the animation above that also includes mid-lake buoy observations. Lake Superior is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":47300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297","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=47297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47304,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47297\/revisions\/47304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}