{"id":63491,"date":"2025-03-12T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=63491"},"modified":"2025-03-14T03:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:19:32","slug":"blowing-dust-across-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/63491","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust across Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 3258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/03\/250312_g16_vis_TX_bldn.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/03\/250312_2300z_g16_vis_TX_bldn.png\" width=\"3248\" height=\"1896\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Red Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images with plots of Surface Wind barbs (white), Peak Wind gusts (yellow) and Ceiling\/Visibility\/Weather (cyan); Interstate highways are plotted in red [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>W-NW winds gusting in excess of 50 mph in the wake of a cold front lofted areas of blowing dust across parts of Texas on 12 March 2025, as seen in GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Visible images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>. Blowing dust reduced the visibility to 1-1\/2 miles at times along the Interstate 20 corridor in the vicinity of Midland.<\/p>\n<p>Daytime True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a more distinct view of the blowing dust &#8212; and after sunset, Dust RGB images highlighted the airborne dust as shades of magenta.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/03\/GOES-16_RadC_true_color_night_dust_2025071_180115_2025072_030115.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/03\/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_night_dust_2025071_233115Z.png\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 daytime True Color RGB + nighttime Dust RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/03\/GOES-16_RadC_true_color_night_dust_2025071_180115_2025072_030115.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W-NW winds gusting in excess of 50 mph in the wake of a cold front lofted areas of blowing dust across parts of Texas on 12 March 2025, as seen in GOES-16 (GOES-East) Visible images (above). Blowing dust reduced the visibility to 1-1\/2 miles at times along the Interstate 20 corridor in the vicinity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":63496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,132,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-geo2grid","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63491","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=63491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63497,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63491\/revisions\/63497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}