{"id":6455,"date":"2010-08-25T20:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2010-08-25T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T20:30:52","slug":"long-lived-low-cloud-edge-over-the-eastern-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6455","title":{"rendered":"Long-lived low cloud edge over the Eastern Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/VIS_2010237_1830UTC.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/VIS_2010237_1830UTC.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"VIS_2010237_1830UTC\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visible and infrared GOES-11 imagery over the eastern Pacific Ocean have indicated a persistent southwestward-moving cloud edge during the past several days.  The visible image, above, from 1830 UTC on 25 August, shows a distinct cloud edge arcing from northwest to southeast.  What is the history of this feature?  The visible imagery loop below, showing 1800 UTC images over the course of 4 days, show that the feature likely has its roots in dry air exiting the North American continent.  A loop of 11-micron imagery from GOES-11 every two hours (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/IR4_Aug2010_loop.gif\">here<\/a>) shows the steady progression of the feature, and the persistent sharpness of the edge.  Brightness temperatures of the clouds are steady near 287-288 K;  brightness temperatures in the clear region are 290-291 K.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/VisEdgeLoop.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/VisEdgeLoop.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"VisEdgeLoop\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6461\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visible and infrared GOES-11 imagery over the eastern Pacific Ocean have indicated a persistent southwestward-moving cloud edge during the past several days. The visible image, above, from 1830 UTC on 25 August, shows a distinct cloud edge arcing from northwest to southeast. What is the history of this feature? The visible imagery loop below, showing [&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":[10,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-11","category-what-the-heck-is-this"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","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=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6466,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions\/6466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}