{"id":62356,"date":"2025-01-03T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=62356"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:46:54","slug":"power-plant-plumes-in-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/62356","title":{"rendered":"Power plant plumes in North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1311px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/goeseast_abi_radc_true_color_night_s20250103115117_e20250103220117_f123.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/goeseast_abi_radc_true_color_night_20250103161117.png\" width=\"1301\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images, from 1151-2201 UTC on 3rd January [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/QuickGuide_GOESR_NtMicroRGB_Final_20191206-1.pdf\"><strong>Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/strong><\/a> + daytime True Color RGB images from the <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#playing:true;coordinate:0,0;num_frames:37;\"><strong>CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed several power plant condensation plumes south of Lake Sakakawea in western North Dakota on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20250103.html\"><strong>3rd January 2025<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 Near-Infrared Snow\/Ice (1.61 \u00b5m) and Day Fog (3.9-10.3 \u00b5m) brightness temperature difference images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> suggested that particulate matter within these power plant plumes (originating from plants in Mercer, Oliver and McLean counties) may have acted to seed a patch of supercooled water droplet clouds, causing them to glaciate and produce a brief period of light snow at Mandan (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250103_KY19_SFCMG.GIF\"><strong>KY19<\/strong><\/a>) &#8212; and perhaps create enough ice crystals in the air to reduce visibility at Glen Ullin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250103_KD57_SFCMG.GIF\"><strong>KD57<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 2944px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250103_g16_nir_dayFog_ND.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250103_1636utc_g16_dayFog_ND.png\" width=\"2934\" height=\"1898\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Near-Infrared Snow\/Ice (1.61 \u00b5m) and Day Fog (3.9-10.3 \u00b5m) images with 15-minute METAR surface reports plotted in cyan, from 1501-1901 UTC on 3rd January [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) True Color RGB images and <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GOES-BlowingSnowRGB1_QuickGuide_24April2024.pdf\"><strong>Blowing Snow RGB<\/strong><\/a> images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed the power plant plumes from a different perspective (GOES-19 is positioned over the Equator at 89.5\u00b0W longitude during its post-launch testing, compared to the position of GOES-16 at 75.2\u00b0W longitude). Some lake effect clouds could also be seen streaming southward, immediately downwind of the ice-free portions of Lake Sakakawea.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 3258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/GOES-19_RadC_true_color_2025003_150117_2025003_220117.mp4_combined_horizontally_with_GOES-19_RadC_blowing_snow_2025003_150117_2025003_220117.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250103_2001utc_goes19_trueColorRGB_blowingSnowRGB_ND_power_plant_plumes.png\" width=\"3248\" height=\"1736\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) True Color RGB images (left) and Blowing Snow RGB images (right), from 1501-2201 UTC on 3rd January [click to play animated GIF | MP4]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed several power plant condensation plumes south of Lake Sakakawea in western North Dakota on 3rd January 2025. GOES-16 Near-Infrared Snow\/Ice (1.61 \u00b5m) and Day Fog (3.9-10.3 \u00b5m) brightness temperature difference images (below) suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":62395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,74,159,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geo2grid","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\/62356","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=62356"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62400,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62356\/revisions\/62400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}