{"id":50348,"date":"2023-02-08T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=50348"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:35:47","slug":"snow-squalls-in-wyoming-and-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/50348","title":{"rendered":"Snow squalls in Wyoming and Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/230208_goes18_infrared_WY_CO_snow_squalls_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/co_ir-20230209_020029.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with 15-minute METAR surface reports plotted in yellow [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/02\/230208_goes18_infrared_WY_CO_snow_squalls_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the colder cloud tops (shades of green) associated with snow squalls that moved east-southeastward across parts of far southern Wyoming and northern\/central Colorado late in the day on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20230208.html\"><strong>08 February 2023<\/strong><\/a>. Plots of 15-minute METAR surface reports indicated how quickly the visibility fluctuated at sites where the snow squalls passed overhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the colder cloud tops (shades of green) associated with snow squalls that moved east-southeastward across parts of far southern Wyoming and northern\/central Colorado late in the day on 08 February 2023. Plots of 15-minute METAR surface reports indicated how quickly the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":50372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-18","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348","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=50348"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50376,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348\/revisions\/50376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}