{"id":61953,"date":"2024-12-04T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=61953"},"modified":"2024-12-07T00:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T00:15:05","slug":"widespread-power-outages-across-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/61953","title":{"rendered":"Widespread power outages across Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 2720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241204_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_Cuba_power_outages_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241204_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_Cuba_power_outages_anim.gif\" width=\"2710\" height=\"1674\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 on 4th December [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Cuba&#8217;s largest power plant went offline around 0700 UTC on 4th December 2024 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/12\/4\/millions-without-power-as-cuba-hit-by-another-nationwide-blackout\"><strong>media report<\/strong><\/a>), which led to a collapse of the power grid across much of the island. A toggle between VIIRS Day\/Night Band images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> provided a before\/after view of nighttime city light emissions across Cuba &#8212; there was a notable decrease in city lights evident in the later NOAA-20 (mislabeled as NPP) Day\/Night Band image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba&#8217;s largest power plant went offline around 0700 UTC on 4th December 2024 (media report), which led to a collapse of the power grid across much of the island. A toggle between VIIRS Day\/Night Band images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 (above) provided a before\/after view of nighttime city light emissions across Cuba &#8212; there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":61954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953","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=61953"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61993,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953\/revisions\/61993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}