{"id":62597,"date":"2025-01-15T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=62597"},"modified":"2025-01-19T04:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T04:36:05","slug":"ice-motion-and-growth-in-southern-lake-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/62597","title":{"rendered":"Ice motion and growth in southern Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/GOES-19_RadC_true_color_2025014_151116_2025014_215616.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/GOES-19_ABI_RadC_true_color_2025014_184116Z.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) True Color RGB images, from 1511-2156 UTC on 14 January [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) True Color RGB images &#8212; created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed ice in southwestern\/southern Lake Michigan that was being driven away from the coastlines of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana by gusty NW winds on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20250114.html\"><strong>14th January 2025<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Visible images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of surface and buoy reports &#8212; which showed wind gusts in the 25-30 knot range at several sites near the Lake Michigan coast.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2944px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250114_g16_vis_Lake_Michigan_ice.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250114_1701utc_g16_vis_Lake_Michigan_ice.png\" width=\"2934\" height=\"1898\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible images with plots of 15-minute METAR surface reports (yellow) and hourly Buoy reports (cyan) [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250114_lmich_sst_ice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250114_lmich_sst_ice.png\" width=\"1028\" height=\"919\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Analysis of Southern Lake Michigan water temperature (derived from NOAA-20 VIIRS data) at 1810 UTC on 14th January; lake ice appears white [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The presence of lake ice off the southwestern\/southern coast of Lake Michigan was confirmed by a Water Temperature analysis <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>. Lake ice in SAR imagery exhibits high backscatter values, represented by the yellow to red colors normally associated with higher wind speeds.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250114_1200utc_rcm3_sar_lakemichigan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250114_1200utc_rcm3_sar_lakemichigan.png\" width=\"1800\" height=\"3223\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCM-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar image at 1200 UTC on 14th January [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A longer sequence of GOES-19 True Color RGB images during the daytime hours on 13\/14\/15 January <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a gradual growth in nearshore ice across southwestern\/southern Lake Michigan during that 3-day period, as cold air remained in place across that area.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250113_250114_250115_goes19_trueColorRGB_Lake_Michigan_ice.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/GOES-19_ABI_RadC_true_color_2025015_184116Z.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) True Color RGB images during the daytime hours on 13\/14\/15 January [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A Landsat-9 Natural Color RGB image at 1635 UTC on 16th January <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a high-resolution view of Lake Michigan ice (pale shades of cyan) off the coast near Chicago.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 3266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250116_1635utc_landsat9_naturalColorRGB_Lake_Michigan_ice_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/01\/250116_1635utc_landsat9_naturalColorRGB_Lake_Michigan_ice_anim.gif\" width=\"3256\" height=\"2092\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landsat-9 Natural Color RGB image at 1635 UTC on 16th January [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (Preliminary\/Non-operational) True Color RGB images &#8212; created using Geo2Grid (below) displayed ice in southwestern\/southern Lake Michigan that was being driven away from the coastlines of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana by gusty NW winds on 14th January 2025. GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (below) included plots of surface and buoy reports &#8212; which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":62598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,132,74,159,55,78,45,104,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryosphere","category-geo2grid","category-goes-16","category-goes-19","category-landsat","category-noaa-20","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-sar","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62597","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=62597"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62634,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62597\/revisions\/62634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}