{"id":70139,"date":"2026-04-25T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=70139"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:11:17","slug":"fog-stratus-over-lake-michigan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/70139","title":{"rendered":"Fog\/stratus over Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 2972px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_goes19_visible_Lake_Michigan_stratus.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_1900utc_g19_vis.png\" alt=\"1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with plots of METAR surface reports, from 1201 UTC on 25 April to 0000 UTC on 26 April [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"2962\" height=\"1678\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with plots of METAR surface reports, from 1201 UTC on 25 April to 0000 UTC on 26 April [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0Visible images <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed fog\/stratus that was moving southward across the far southern part of Lake Michigan on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20260425.html\"><strong>25 April 2026<\/strong><\/a>. Plots of METAR surface observations highlighted how areas near the coast &#8212; where a lake breeze advected the fog\/stratus inland &#8212; stayed significantly cooler (temperatures in the 40s F) than cloud-free areas farther inland (temperatures in the 50s and 60s F). <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260426_0700utc_S_Lake_Michigan_water_temperature.png\"><strong>Water temperatures<\/strong><\/a> in southern Lake Michigan were still in the upper 30s to low 40s F.<\/p>\n<p>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-19 Cloud Thickness derived product images <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> depicted how variable the thickness of the fog\/stratus layer was as it drifted southward across the lake.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 2972px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_goes19_visible_cloudThickness_Lake_Michigan_stratus.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_1607utc_g19_thk.png\" alt=\"5-minute GOES-19 Cloud Thickness derived product, from 1301-2156 UTC on 25 April [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"2962\" height=\"1678\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">5-minute GOES-19 Cloud Thickness derived product, from 1301-2156 UTC on 25 April [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Cursor samples <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the maximum Cloud Thickness of the Lake Michigan stratus was just over 1000 ft (lighter shades of orange).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2972px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_1641utc_goes19_cloudThickness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_1641utc_goes19_cloudThickness.png\" alt=\"Cursor sample of GOES-19 Cloud Thickness derived product at 1641 UTC on 25 April [click to enlarge]\" width=\"2962\" height=\"1678\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cursor sample of the GOES-19 Cloud Thickness derived product at 1641 UTC on 25 April [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 2972px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_2112utc_goes19_cloudThickness_cursor_sample.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/04\/260425_2112utc_goes19_cloudThickness_cursor_sample.png\" alt=\"Cursor sample of GOES-19 Cloud Thickness derived product at 2111 UTC on 25 April [click to enlarge]\" width=\"2962\" height=\"1678\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cursor sample of the GOES-19 Cloud Thickness derived product at 2111 UTC on 25 April [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East)\u00a0Visible images (above) showed fog\/stratus that was moving southward across the far southern part of Lake Michigan on 25 April 2026. Plots of METAR surface observations highlighted how areas near the coast &#8212; where a lake breeze advected the fog\/stratus inland &#8212; stayed significantly cooler (temperatures in the 40s F) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70139","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=70139"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70152,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70139\/revisions\/70152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}