{"id":4364,"date":"2008-02-01T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T19:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/visit\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/01\/great-lakes-phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:06:31","slug":"great-lakes-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/02\/01\/great-lakes-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/modis-great-lakes.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/modis-great-lakes.gif\" alt=\"Great lakes image from MODIS\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff Braun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is going on over the eastern Great Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario on December 13, 2005?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See loop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cira.colostate.edu\/cira\/RAMM\/\/picoday\/051214\/visloop.html\">http:\/\/www.cira.colostate.edu\/cira\/RAMM\/\/picoday\/051214\/visloop.html<\/a> ) and data below for additional help.&nbsp;&nbsp; Clicking on each image below will bring it up the full sized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/sounding_apx12z.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/sounding_apx12z.gif\" alt=\"Sounding 12\/13\/05\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/glsfc_zoom_12z.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/glsfc_zoom_12z.gif\" alt=\"1200z Surface Analysis\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/glsst.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/02\/glsst.gif\" alt=\"Great Lake surface environment analysis 12\/13\/05\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer:&nbsp; These are simultaneous mesoscale vortices&nbsp;over the Great Lakes during the winter of (December 14) 2005.&nbsp; These phenomena are typically observed&nbsp;when arctic air is warmed from below by the relatively warm water of these huge lakes during late fall\/early winter.&nbsp; For more on these regional events, please see:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cira.colostate.edu\/cira\/RAMM\/\/picoday\/051214\/051214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cira.colostate.edu\/cira\/RAMM\/\/picoday\/051214\/051214.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Braun What is going on over the eastern Great Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario on December 13, 2005? See loop: ( http:\/\/www.cira.colostate.edu\/cira\/RAMM\/\/picoday\/051214\/visloop.html ) and data below for additional help.&nbsp;&nbsp; Clicking on each image below will bring it up the full sized. Answer:&nbsp; These are simultaneous mesoscale vortices&nbsp;over the Great Lakes during the winter of <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/02\/01\/great-lakes-phenomenon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lake-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}