{"id":64451,"date":"2025-04-29T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=64451"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:20:49","slug":"power-outage-on-the-iberian-peninsula-in-the-day-night-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/64451","title":{"rendered":"Power outage on the Iberian Peninsula in the Day Night Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Power outages over the Iberian Peninsula on 28-29 April 2025 have caused wide-spread travel (and life) disruptions (Reuters link<\/a>). Day Night Band imagery from the NASA Worldview Site (link<\/a>), shown below, show a reduction in city lights especially over southern Spain on the 29th. The NOAA-20 overpass on 29 April was shortly after 0140 UTC. Skies at that time were mostly clear over southern Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/polyline>\n\t\t\t<\/polyline>\n\t\t\t<\/polyline>\n\t\t\t<\/polyline>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The 3-day animation below includes imagery from 27 April as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOAA-20 Day Night Band visible (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery, 27-29 April 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When NOAA-20 overflew Spain early on 30 April<\/a>, Day Night Band imagery did not show widespread outages, as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOAA-20 Day Night Band visible (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery, 30 April 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Power outages over the Iberian Peninsula on 28-29 April 2025 have caused wide-spread travel (and life) disruptions (Reuters link). Day Night Band imagery from the NASA Worldview Site (link), shown below, show a reduction in city lights especially over southern Spain on the 29th. The NOAA-20 overpass on 29 April was shortly after 0140 UTC. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":64490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64451","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=64451"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64485,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64451\/revisions\/64485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}