Posted on 02/23/2015 1:42:53 PM PST by WhiskeyX
NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer. In addition to the snow cover, Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.
On Feb. 19 at 16:40 UTC (11:40 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a picture of the snowy landscape. The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of freezer. The MODIS image was created at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
On the morning of Feb. 20, NOAA's Weather Prediction Center (WPC) noted, "There were widespread subzero overnight lows Thursday night (Feb. 19) extending from Illinois to western Virginia, and numerous record lows were set. Bitterly-cold arctic air is setting numerous temperature records across the eastern U.S. and will keep temperatures well below normal on Friday (Feb. 20)."
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Because of its great depth, Lake Ontario as a whole never freezes in winter, but an ice sheet covering between 10% and 90% of the lake area typically develops, depending on the severity of the winter. Ice sheets typically form along the shoreline and in slack water bays, where the lake is not as deep. During the winters of 1877 and 1878, the ice sheet coverage was up to 95–100% in most of the lake. In the winter of 1812, the ice cover was stable enough that the American naval commander stationed at Sackets Harbor feared a British attack from Kingston, over the ice.
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun, not ice covered lakes.............
The sun’s solar activity and earth’s trans-global wind patterns didn’t get the ‘climate change memo’ to fall in line with the weather nazi’s of propaganda. aHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA-—
You rock Mother Nature and Father Time...
COOOOL!
It’s colder than that here in Nashville, TN.
18 in Sandpoint this morning. I durn near planted bulbs on Saturday morning. Lake's froze up again, too. I don't think we're through this thing.
It's colder than that here in Boise right now.
It's colder than that here in Houston right now!
Yup. 28 degrees.
It is 32 here in N. AL.
Do you have a link for that?
It's colder than that here in Boise right now.
Low 20s and dropping here on the Jersey coast, low single digits predicted for tomorrow morning.
polar inversion.
Well, it’s not even March yet. We usually start gardening in May, when it’s warm enough to go outside. We’ve had some cold springs around here lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbIiu7NKysM
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/02/video_breaking_ice_on_lake_eri.html
16 here in Eastern MA——I’m getting used to it,as long as the snow keeps away.
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Thank You!
It’s colder than that in Houston right now.
Oh, yeah, I got fooled bigtime. But so have the weeds, and those consarned things are getting a jolly start while I’m keeping the bulbs stashed in the basement. The weeds are there, their little green heads smirking at me, taunting me, razzing me...
Gardening is WAR!!! (Sound of hyperventilating)
I know winter has gone on too long when I was outside thinking its a nice day when its only -2 and the sun is shining.
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