{"id":49062,"date":"2022-12-08T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=49062"},"modified":"2022-12-16T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:53:10","slug":"lake-effect-cloud-plume-in-northeastern-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/49062","title":{"rendered":"Lake effect cloud plume in northeastern Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images, with surface observations plotted in yellow and highways plotted in violet; Fort Peck Lake is outlined in blue [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/strong><\/a> and Day Snow-Fog RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a lake effect fog\/stratus plume that was meandering slowly northward from the still-unfrozen Fort Peck Lake<\/strong><\/a> in northeastern Montana (just south of Glasgow) on 08 December 2022<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the hours leading up to sunrise, GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images with an overlay of the GOES-16 Cloud Top Phase<\/strong><\/a> derived product (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the majority of this lake effect fog\/stratus plume had tops consisting of supercooled water droplets.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images, with an overlay of the GOES-16 Cloud Top Phase derived product [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>
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GOES-16 Cloud Thickness product [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The GOES-16 Cloud Thickness product (above)<\/strong><\/em>, a component of the Fog\/Low Stratus (FLS)<\/strong><\/a> suite, showed that this fog\/stratus feature was generally 1000 feet thick or less — confined to a strong but shallow low-level temperature inversion, according to plots of rawinsonde data<\/strong><\/a> from Glasgow (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Plots of lower-tropospheric rawinsonde data from Glasgow, Montana at 0000 UTC (yellow) and 1200 UTC (cyan) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Once this fog\/stratus plume began to move over Glasgow shortly after 1000 UTC, their surface observations<\/strong><\/a> revealed frequent fluctuations in the surface visibility, along with periods of freezing fog and occasionally some light snow (below)<\/strong><\/em>. In addition, these conditions likely had an impact on travel along US Highway 2 (which runs northwest-to-southeast through the Glasgow area).<\/p>\n

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Plot of surface observation data from Glasgow, Montana [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) showed a lake effect fog\/stratus plume that was meandering slowly northward from the still-unfrozen Fort Peck Lake in northeastern Montana (just south of Glasgow) on 08 December 2022. During the hours leading up to sunrise, GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images with an overlay of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,74,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062","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=49062"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49358,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49062\/revisions\/49358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}