{"id":49953,"date":"2023-01-23T21:12:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=49953"},"modified":"2023-01-23T21:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:35:53","slug":"the-moving-shadow-of-mt-shasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/49953","title":{"rendered":"The moving shadow of Mt. Shasta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"808\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1274 \/ 808;\" width=\"1274\" controls loop src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/goeswest_abi_radc_true_color_night_s20230123154117_e20230123194617_f50.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSPP Geosphere GOES-18 True Color Imagery, 1541 &#8211; 1946 UTC on 23 January 2023 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Northern California enjoyed a clear day on 23 January, and the animation above, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#coordinate:0,0;satellite:goeswest;\">CSPP Geosphere site<\/a>, (click <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#coordinate:1131236,3995651;zoom:7.7;satellite:goeswest;coverage:radc;num_frames:50;start_time:2023-01-23T15:41:00Z;timeframe:Start%20Time\">here<\/a> for a direct &#8212; but not permanent &#8212; link to the animation) shows the shadow of Mount Shasta (see the still image below identifying both the mountain and the shadow) shortening over the course of the morning.  Note that clouds are also present around the mountain peak as well, although <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/ShastaWebCam.png\">this webcam screen capture from 2100 UTC<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mtshastachamber.com\/live-cam\/\">source<\/a>) shows only clear skies.  Also of interest in the animation above: the sloshing of the low clouds within the valleys of southern Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/ShastaShadow-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/ShastaShadow-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/ShastaShadow-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/ShastaShadow-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/ShastaShadow.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSPP Geosphere GOES-18 (PACUS) imagery at 1606 UTC on 23 January 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40218\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40230\">here<\/a> for similar blog posts on the shadow of Denali.  Thanks to Mike Stavish, SOO at WFO MFR for drawing our attention to this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern California enjoyed a clear day on 23 January, and the animation above, from the CSPP Geosphere site, (click here for a direct &#8212; but not permanent &#8212; link to the animation) shows the shadow of Mount Shasta (see the still image below identifying both the mountain and the shadow) shortening over the course of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":49954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-18"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953","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=49953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49966,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49953\/revisions\/49966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}