{"id":66124,"date":"2025-07-30T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=66124"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:02:50","slug":"actinoform-cloud-feature-passes-just-north-of-the-hawaiian-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/66124","title":{"rendered":"Actinoform cloud feature passes just north of the Hawaiian Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1318px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/07\/goeswest_abi_radc_true_color_night_s20250730140118_e20250731022118_f149.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/07\/goeswest_abi_radc_true_color_night_20250730225618.png\" width=\"1308\" height=\"751\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images, from 1401 UTC on 30 July to 0221 UTC on 31 July [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> Nighttime Microphysics RGB and daytime True Color RGB image<strong><em>s <\/em><\/strong><em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the cyclonic circulation of an actinoform cloud feature as it passed just north of the Hawaiian Islands on 30 July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-18 Visible images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> included plots of Ship and Fixed Buoy reports &#8212; unfortunately, the actinoform cloud feature avoided all of those reports, so any effects on sensible weather could not be ascertained (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37380\"><strong>another case<\/strong><\/a> near Hawai`i provided evidence of rain showers associated with an actinoform feature).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 3258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/07\/250730_g18_vis_HI.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/07\/250731_0101utc_g18_vis_HI.png\" width=\"3248\" height=\"1964\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 Visible images, from 1601 UTC on 30 July to 0201 UTC on 31 July [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-minute PACUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Nighttime Microphysics RGB and daytime True Color RGB images (above) revealed the cyclonic circulation of an actinoform cloud feature as it passed just north of the Hawaiian Islands on 30 July 2025. GOES-18 Visible images (below) included plots of Ship and Fixed Buoy reports &#8212; unfortunately, the actinoform cloud feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":66152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-18","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66124","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=66124"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66164,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66124\/revisions\/66164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}