{"id":9362,"date":"2011-12-10T17:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9362"},"modified":"2011-12-15T02:45:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T02:45:19","slug":"freezing-fog-across-the-pacific-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9362","title":{"rendered":"Freezing fog across the Pacific Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111210_modis_fog_pacnw_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS fog\/stratus product + METAR surface reports\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111210_modis_fog_pacnw_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS fog\/stratus product + METAR surface reports\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS fog\/stratus product + METAR surface reports<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog\/stratus product <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed areas of freezing fog that were persisting across parts of the Pacific Northwest region of the US during the pre-dawn hours on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20111210.html\" title=\"10 December 2011 daily weather map\">10 December 2011<\/a><\/strong>. This freezing fog was causing a few traffic accidents on roadways across the region.<\/p>\n<p>On the previous day (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20111209.html\" title=\"09 December 2011 daily weather map\">09 December<\/a><\/strong>), an NPP VIIRS true color image <strong><em>(below; courtesy of Liam Gumley, CIMSS)<\/em><\/strong> showed the daytime coverage of the fog and stratus features that were trapped beneath a strong temperature inversion with stagnant high pressure in place over the region.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111209_npp_viirs_truecolor_pacnw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NPP VIIRS true color image (courtesy of Liam Gumley, CIMSS)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/111209_npp_viirs_truecolor_pacnw.jpg\" title=\"NPP VIIRS true color image (courtesy of Liam Gumley, CIMSS)\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPP VIIRS true color image (courtesy of Liam Gumley, CIMSS)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog\/stratus product (above) showed areas of freezing fog that were persisting across parts of the Pacific Northwest region of the US during the pre-dawn hours on 10 December 2011. This freezing fog was causing a few traffic accidents on roadways across the region. On the previous day (09 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-modis","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362","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=9362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9368,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions\/9368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}