{"id":61872,"date":"2024-11-25T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=61872"},"modified":"2024-12-06T23:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T23:52:17","slug":"lake-effect-clouds-producing-light-snow-in-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/61872","title":{"rendered":"Lake effect clouds (producing light snow) in North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_goes19_dayCloudPhaseDistinctionRGB_ND_lake_effect_clouds_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/GOES-19_ABI_RadC_cloud_phase_distinction_2024330_160117Z.png\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images, from 1431-2216 UTC on 25th November [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_goes19_dayCloudPhaseDistinctionRGB_ND_lake_effect_clouds_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/QuickGuide_DayCloudPhaseDistinction_final_v2.pdf\"><strong>Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB<\/strong><\/a> images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; displayed supercooled &#8220;lake effect&#8221; clouds (shades of white) streaming southeast off <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Sakakawea\"><strong>Lake Sakakawea<\/strong><\/a> in northwestern North Dakota on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20241125.html\"><strong>25th November 2024<\/strong><\/a>. A smaller cloud plume was also seen streaming southeast off <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devils_Lake_(North_Dakota)\"><strong>Devils Lake<\/strong><\/a> in northeastern North Dakota. Existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nohrsc.noaa.gov\/interactive\/html\/map.html?ql=station&amp;zoom=&amp;loc=47.187+N%2C+104.454+W&amp;var=snow_depth_obs_24_h&amp;dy=2024&amp;dm=11&amp;dd=25&amp;dh=12&amp;snap=1&amp;o6=1&amp;o9=1&amp;o13=1&amp;lbl=m&amp;mode=pan&amp;extents=us&amp;min_x=-104.46666666667&amp;min_y=44.849999999996&amp;max_x=-96.966666666668&amp;max_y=49.849999999996&amp;coord_x=-100.716666666669&amp;coord_y=47.349999999996&amp;zbox_n=&amp;zbox_s=&amp;zbox_e=&amp;zbox_w=&amp;metric=0&amp;bgvar=dem&amp;shdvar=shading&amp;width=900&amp;height=600&amp;nw=900&amp;nh=600&amp;h_o=0&amp;font=1&amp;js=1&amp;uc=0\"><strong>snow cover<\/strong><\/a> appeared as shades of green in the RGB images, with bare ground appearing as shades of blue.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band05.pdf\"><strong>1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> included 15-minute plots of METAR surface reports &#8212; which showed brief periods of light snow at Hazen (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_1631utc_g16_nir_khze_metar.png\"><strong>KHZE<\/strong><\/a>) and Bismarck (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_1651utc_g16_nir_kbis_metar.png\"><strong>KBIS<\/strong><\/a>). Snow cover appeared as darker shades of gray to black in the Snow\/Ice imagery. Note the cold air &#8212; having temperatures in the single digits to teens F &#8212; that was flowing across the still-unfrozen reservoirs of the Missouri River (in addition to Devils Lake). Water surface temperatures on Lake Sakakawea were in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_kbis_afd.text\"><strong>middle to upper 40s F<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_g16_nearInfraredSnowIce_ND_lake_effect_snow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_1656utc_g16_nir_KHZE.png\" width=\"2710\" height=\"1680\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m) images, with 15-minute METAR surface reports plotted in cyan, from 1416-2231 UTC on 25th November [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/11\/241125_g16_nearInfraredSnowIce_ND_lake_effect_snow.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lake effect clouds near Devils Lake today, with even a few flurries underneath!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ndwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ndwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSGrandForks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NWSGrandForks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yymtTRqsIt\">pic.twitter.com\/yymtTRqsIt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dillon Vogt (@DillonvWx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DillonvWx\/status\/1861169830922998270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (above) &#8212; created using Geo2Grid &#8212; displayed supercooled &#8220;lake effect&#8221; clouds (shades of white) streaming southeast off Lake Sakakawea in northwestern North Dakota on 25th November 2024. A smaller cloud plume was also seen streaming southeast off Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota. Existing snow cover appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":61878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,159,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-goes-19","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61872","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=61872"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61996,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61872\/revisions\/61996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}