{"id":64463,"date":"2025-04-28T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=64463"},"modified":"2025-05-02T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:09:30","slug":"long-range-transport-of-blowing-dust-from-mexico-new-mexico-and-texas-to-the-upper-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/64463","title":{"rendered":"Long-range transport of blowing dust from Mexico, New Mexico and Texas to the Upper Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5-minute GOES-19 daytime True Color RGB + nighttime Dust RGB images, from 1901 UTC on 27 April to 0601 UTC on 28 April [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East)<\/em> daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> provided a distinct view of widespread blowing dust (shades of tan to light brown) — that had its primary source regions in northern Mexico and southern New Mexico — on 27 April 2025<\/strong><\/a>. Peak wind gusts were as high as 50 knots at Deming NM (at 2246 UTC)<\/strong><\/a> and 46 knots at El Paso TX (at 2020 UTC)<\/strong><\/a>. The visibility was restricted to 1\/4-1\/2 mile<\/strong><\/a> at El Paso TX from 2200-0145 UTC — prompting the issuance of numerous Blowing Dust Warnings in the area. After sunset, Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a> images highlighted the airborne dust (shades of magenta) as it was transported northeastward as far as southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas by 0601 UTC on 28 April. In addition, a few wildfires across northern Mexico and central New Mexico were producing notable smoke plumes (brighter shades of white, in contrast to the blowing dust) prior to sunset.<\/p>\n

A longer animation of 10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 Dust RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the leading edge of airborne dust had advanced as far northeastward as Nebraska by 0900 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 28 April, and northwestern Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan by 2110 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 28 April.<\/p>\n

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10-minute GOES-19 Dust RGB images, from 1800 UTC on 27 April to 0600 UTC on 29 April [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>HYSPLIT Model<\/strong><\/a> forward trajectories initialized near the dust source regions in far northern Mexico (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the dust-laden air parcels likely ascended to altitudes of 4.0 to 6.5 km by the time they passed over Wisconsin and Michigan by 0000 UTC on 29 April — which was in good agreement with what was observed in the longer animation of GOES-19 Dust RGB images.<\/p>\n

HYSPLIT Model forward trajectories, from 2000 UTC on 27 April to 0500 UTC on 29 April<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) provided a distinct view of widespread blowing dust (shades of tan to light brown) — that had its primary source regions in northern Mexico and southern New Mexico — on 27 April 2025. Peak wind gusts were as high as 50 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":64511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,132,159,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-geo2grid","category-goes-19","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64463","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=64463"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64522,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64463\/revisions\/64522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}