{"id":1593,"date":"2010-01-12T22:08:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/snow-around-the-aral-sea-snow-in-early-january-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:21:35","slug":"snow-around-the-aral-sea-in-early-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/snow-around-the-aral-sea-in-early-january-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow around the Aral Sea in early January 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=42264&amp;src=nha\">Snow surrounded the Aral Sea<\/a> in early January 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer <a href=\"http:\/\/modis.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">(MODIS)<\/a> on NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/aqua.nasa.gov\/\">Aqua<\/a> satellite captured this true-color image on January 8, 2010. A band of snow extends from southwest to northeast, crossing over the Aral Sea. The band of snow thins along its southeastern edge, so snow barely covers the southeastern shore of the water body.<\/p>\n<p>January 2010 also brought the heaviest snowfall in decades to the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=42172\">Beijing region<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=42211\">Seoul,<\/a> and unusually heavy snow to Western Europe, including <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=42237\">Great Britain.<\/a> Unusually <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=42260\">cold temperatures<\/a> throughout the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere in December 2009 likely resulted from a negative plunge of the Arctic Oscillation. Land surface temperature anomalies in the region of the Aral Sea, however, were mixed, both above and below the 2000\u20132008 average.<\/p>\n<p>By the time MODIS acquired this image of the Aral Sea, the water body was a <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/aral_sea.php\">small remnant<\/a> of its former self. Once the world\u2019s fourth-largest lake, the sea was dramatically reduced by irrigation projects.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/imagerecords\/42000\/42264\/aral_amo_2010008_lrg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Snow around the Aral Sea \" src=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/imagerecords\/42000\/42264\/aral_amo_2010008.jpg\" alt=\"Snow around the Aral Sea \" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow around the Aral Sea <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/imagerecords\/42000\/42264\/aral_amo_2010008.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow surrounded the Aral Sea in early January 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on January 8, 2010. A band of snow extends from southwest to northeast, crossing over the Aral Sea. 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