{"id":58670,"date":"2024-04-22T17:53:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=58670"},"modified":"2024-04-22T17:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:53:37","slug":"great-lakes-on-earth-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/58670","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes on Earth Day 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/N20DNBSST-20240422_075510-1024x665.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/N20DNBSST-20240422_075510-1024x665.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/N20DNBSST-20240422_075510-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/N20DNBSST-20240422_075510-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/N20DNBSST-20240422_075510.png 1380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NOAA-20 Day Night Band visible imagery (0.7) and Derived ACSPO Lake Surface Temperatures, 0756 UTC on 22 April 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NOAA-20 overflew the Great Lakes early on 22 April 2024 (Earth Day) and the lack of cloud cover (except over northeastern Lake Superior) allowed a determination of Lake Surface Temperatures over most of the Great Lakes.  As is usually the case, Lake Erie is the warmest lake, with temperatures near 50<sup>o<\/sup>F over the western part of the lake (values are closer to 41-42<sup>o<\/sup>F just north of Erie PA).  How might Erie&#8217;s temperatures change in the near future?  That&#8217;s estimated at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glerl.noaa.gov\/res\/glcfs\/anim.php\/?lake=eri&amp;var=temp\">this link<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glerl.noaa.gov\/res\/glcfs\/\">GLERL<\/a>.  Temperatures over Erie are warmer than normal &#8212; but not so warm as during April of 2012 &#8212; as shown <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.glerl.noaa.gov\/coastwatch\/webdata\/statistic\/pdf\/all_year_glsea_avg_e.pdf\">here<\/a>; values for other Great Lakes are <a href=\"https:\/\/coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov\/statistics\/average-surface-water-temperature-glsea\/\">here<\/a>.  Temperatures are also near 50<sup>o<\/sup>F are in Saginaw Bay, and along the south shore of Lake Michigan.  Most of northern Lake Michigan, and all of Lake Huron, have temperatures near 40<sup>o<\/sup>F, and Lake Superior shows temperatures in the mid-30s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>AWIPS-ready JPSS Tiles are created from data downloaded at the Direct Broadcast antenna at CIMSS (processed by <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/cspp\/\">CSPP software<\/a>) and are available from an LDM feed at CIMSS.  Data are also available as imagery <a href=\"https:\/\/bin.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/j01\/viirs\/2024_04_22_113_0755\/images\/\">at this ftp site<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/viirs\/imagery-viewer\/?satellite=j01\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA-20 overflew the Great Lakes early on 22 April 2024 (Earth Day) and the lack of cloud cover (except over northeastern Lake Superior) allowed a determination of Lake Surface Temperatures over most of the Great Lakes. As is usually the case, Lake Erie is the warmest lake, with temperatures near 50oF over the western part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":58671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58670","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\/58670","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=58670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58673,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58670\/revisions\/58673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}