{"id":61312,"date":"2024-10-28T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=61312"},"modified":"2024-10-28T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:09:58","slug":"light-snow-moves-across-central-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/61312","title":{"rendered":"Light snow moves across central Alaska"},"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\/10\/G18AirMass-20241028_1500_to_1820anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1122\" height=\"854\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/G18AirMass-20241028_1500_to_1820anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61313\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GOES-18 Airmass RGB, 1500-1820 UTC on 28 October 2024 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GOES-18 Airmass RGB imagery, above, from 1500-1820 UTC on 28 October, show light snow over much of central Alaska as <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/nasfc102824_161002.gif\">a storm system moves into the state<\/a>. Temperatures at 500 mb, below, derived from NUCAPS profiles (as shown in the toggle), show a tongue of warmer air positioned with the cloud feature (shown as white) in the RGB above.  Temperatures in that warm(ish) tongue of air (bluish in the enhancement) are around -25 to -27<sup>o<\/sup>C versus the Bering Sea (magenta in the enhancement) where they are around -35<sup>o<\/sup>C.  Temperatures at 850 mb over the Bering Sea (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/GriddedNUCAPST850_-25to10_SoundingAvailability-20241028_133000.png\">shown here<\/a> with a color enhancement that ranges from -25<sup>o<\/sup>C to +10<sup>o<\/sup>C) are around -6<sup>o<\/sup>C.<\/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\/10\/GriddedNUCAPST500_SoundingAvailability-20241028_1330toggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1122\" height=\"854\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/GriddedNUCAPST500_SoundingAvailability-20241028_1330toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61315\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">500-mb temperatures from gridded NUCAPS, 1330 UTC on 28 October 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snowfall Rates, estimated from ATMS on Suomi-NPP (from <a href=\"https:\/\/sfr.umd.edu\/?page=SFR-Alaska\">this site<\/a>) show snow moving slowly north between 1324 and 1504 UTC over western Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1452\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/MWEstimateSFR_SNPP_1324_1504UTC_28Oct2024toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61318\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">S-NPP estimates of Snow Fall Rate (sfr), 1324 and 1504 UTC on 28 October 2024 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did your eye jump on the heavier Snowfall rates over southern Alaska?  The region around Anchorage is in a Winter Storm Warning;  6-12&#8243; is expected, more than the lighter values expected across the central part of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-18 Airmass RGB imagery, above, from 1500-1820 UTC on 28 October, show light snow over much of central Alaska as a storm system moves into the state. Temperatures at 500 mb, below, derived from NUCAPS profiles (as shown in the toggle), show a tongue of warmer air positioned with the cloud feature (shown as white) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":61315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,114,79,93,78,83,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-18","category-microwave","category-mirs","category-noaa-20","category-nucaps","category-suomi_npp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61312","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=61312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61320,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61312\/revisions\/61320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}