{"id":60265,"date":"2024-07-10T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=60265"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:59:45","slug":"record-heat-in-the-pacific-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/60265","title":{"rendered":"Record Heat in the Pacific Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/G18LST-20240709_1501_to_0710_0301step.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1524\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/G18LST-20240709_1501_to_0710_0301step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60266\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GOES-18 Land Surface Skin Temperature, 1501 UTC 9 July 2024 &#8211; 0301 UTC 10 July 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oregon has seen triple-digit (<sup>o<\/sup> Fahrenheit) heat in early July 2024. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/WFOPortland_RER_for9July2024.png\">Here are records for 9 July<\/a>) The animation below shows GOES-18 Land Surface Temperatures on 9 July. This hourly level-2 product is created in clear skies. It shows warmest values between 2100 and 2200 UTC on 9 July 2024.  Land Surface Temperature imagery is available online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/smcd\/emb\/land\/animation.php?product=LST&amp;sat=GOESR&amp;mode=CONUS\">this NOAA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOES-18 Band 7 imagery, below, also presented hourly instead of at its normal 5-minute cadence for the GOES-18 PACUS domain, shows a similar evolution of temperatures. The surface temperatures become just as warm as two fires, one in northern California (<a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.wildfire.gov\/incident-information\/caknf-shelly-fire\">the Shelley Fire<\/a>) and one east of Medford (<a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.wildfire.gov\/incident-maps-gallery\/or710s-salt-creek\">the Salt Creek Fire<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/G18Band07-20240709_1501_to_0710_0301anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1524\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/G18Band07-20240709_1501_to_0710_0301anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60267\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GOES-18 shortwave infrared (Band 7, 3.9) Brightness Temperature, 1501 UTC 9 July 2024 &#8211; 0301 UTC 10 July 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Relief from the heat over western Oregon is shown in the gridded NUCAPS 850-mb temperature field shown below.  In contrast to the values around 20<sup>o<\/sup>C (in yellow) over eastern Oregon at 0530 UTC on 10 July, values closer to 10<sup>o<\/sup>C (in cyan) are over the Pacific Ocean.  That cooler airmass will help to temper the heat over western Oregon, but heat on will continue in eastern Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/GriddedNUCAPST850-20240710_053000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/GriddedNUCAPST850-20240710_053000-1024x677.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/GriddedNUCAPST850-20240710_053000-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/GriddedNUCAPST850-20240710_053000-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/GriddedNUCAPST850-20240710_053000-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/GriddedNUCAPST850-20240710_053000.png 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Metop-C NUCAPS estimates of 850-mn temperature, 0530 UTC on 10 July 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Weather Service Offices in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/pqr\/\">Portland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/mfr\">Medford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/pdt\">Pendleton<\/a> have more information on this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon has seen triple-digit (o Fahrenheit) heat in early July 2024. (Here are records for 9 July) The animation below shows GOES-18 Land Surface Temperatures on 9 July. This hourly level-2 product is created in clear skies. It shows warmest values between 2100 and 2200 UTC on 9 July 2024. Land Surface Temperature imagery is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":60269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,58,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-18","category-metop","category-nucaps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60265","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=60265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60285,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60265\/revisions\/60285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}