{"id":6322,"date":"2010-08-09T18:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6322"},"modified":"2010-08-09T18:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:50:30","slug":"warm-water-in-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6322","title":{"rendered":"Warm Water in the Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/MODIS_SST_20100808_1847.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/MODIS_SST_20100808_1847.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"MODIS_SST_20100808_1847\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent news articles (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/wisconsin\/99978884.html\">this one<\/a>) have noted the unusual warmth present in the surface waters of the Great Lakes.  Clear skies over the western Great Lakes on Sunday 8 August allowed MODIS instruments to measure sea surface temperatures, and the warm temperatures are plain to see.  These warm temperatures have persisted for some time, and 5-day plots for the Buoy in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/45007_SST.png\">central Lake Michigan (buoy 45007)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/45002_SST.png\">northern Lake Michigan (buoy 45002)<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/45001_SST.png\">center of Lake Superior (buoy 45001)<\/a> all confirm the MODIS readings:  unusual warmth in the Lakes.  In fact, many of the lake surface temperature readings are near the top of the 4th quartile in the statistical distribution (see data <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndbc.noaa.gov\/view_climplot.php?station=45001&#038;meas=st\">here for buoy 45001<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndbc.noaa.gov\/view_climplot.php?station=45007&#038;meas=st\">here for buoy 45007<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Data from the AVHRR on board the NOAA series of satellites show similarly warm temperatures.  <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/AVHRR_SST_20100808_1819.png\">Here<\/a> is an afternoon image from NOAA-19 from 8 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent news articles (such as this one) have noted the unusual warmth present in the surface waters of the Great Lakes. Clear skies over the western Great Lakes on Sunday 8 August allowed MODIS instruments to measure sea surface temperatures, and the warm temperatures are plain to see. These warm temperatures have persisted for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-general-interpretation","category-marine-weather","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322","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=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}