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<\/a>GOES-17 Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images, with and without contours of AK-NAM40 model Max Wind isotachs [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> include contours of AK-NAM40 model Max Wind isotachs — and showed the flow associated with an anomalously-strong<\/strong><\/a> jet stream, with its axis located just off the Arctic coast of Alaska on 03 December 2022.<\/p>\n Plots of Utqiagvik (Barrow, PABR) rawinsonde data<\/strong><\/a> from 1200 UTC and 1800 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the peak wind speeds at 1200 UTC were 151.7 knots from 300 hPa to 351.6 hPa.<\/p>\n Plots of Utqiagvik (Barrow) rawinsonde data from 1200 UTC and 1800 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GOES-17 Upper-level Water Vapor images with contours of Moderate or Greater (MOG) Turbulence Probability within the 34-37 kft layer (below)<\/strong><\/em> did display areas of 10-50% probability just to the south of the jet axis (12 UTC winds\/turbulence comparison<\/strong><\/a>) — and there were isolated Pilot Reports of light to moderate turbulence near the MOG contours over the northern Bering Sea. Real-time MOG Turbulence Probability products are available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>