Posted on 02/21/2015 9:49:37 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA snaps picture of Eastern US in a record-breaking ‘freezer’
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).”
In Baltimore, Maryland, a low temperature of 1F broke the record low for coldest morning recorded at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington-International Airport.
In Louisville, Kentucky, temperatures dropped to -6F, breaking the old record low of 0F, according to meteorologist Brian Goode of WAVE-TV. Meanwhile, Richmond Kentucky bottomed out at a frigid -32F.
In North Carolina, a record low temperature was set at Charlotte where the overnight temperature bottomed out at 7F breaking the old record of 13F in 1896. In Asheville, temperatures dropped to just 4F breaking the old record of 10F in 1979. Temperature records for Asheville extend back to 1876.
Several records were also broken in Georgia, according to Matt Daniel, a meteorologist at WMAZ-TV, Macon Georgia, who cited data from the National Weather Service. Daniel said that Macon set a new record low when the temperature dropped to 18F, beating the previous record of 21F set in 1958. Athens broke a new record low, too dropping to 14F and beating the old record of 18F set in 1958/1928.
NOAA’s NPC noted that “Highs on Friday (Feb. 20) will struggle to get out of the teens from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic region. After Friday, temperatures are forecast to moderate and get closer to February averages as a storm system approaches from the west.”
And those borders are heated during the winter so no pilots get lost either.
Tell me what the day after tomorrow will bring!
You can’t fool us. We all know those lines are caused by the sun’s shadow on the barbed wire fencelines, which are coated in ice. (The asphalt is under the snow...jeshhhh)
Those are shadows from the frozen drag nets.
More cold to my neck of the woods. Coldest yet from what they’re saying.
Piers Corbyn: The Reality of Long Range Weather and Climate Forecasting | EU2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R26PXRrgds
Near the end of the video Piers say it will get colder over the next 30 or so years.
‘They’ like to cite sea temperatures and arctic ice sea extent (to say nothing of the data manufacturing) to support their agenda while ignoring the recovering thickness of the sea ice...
http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/
...and simply remaining silent about the ironic weather.
Ignorance is bliss. Some wonder out loud why the Puppet is in continual ‘campaign mode’; it’s because he IS.
The progressives pulling his strings had 3 great objectives IMHO: Move to nationalized healthcare (to increase control over the populace), implement carbon trading (more wealth redistribution on top of all the ‘free trade’ bs) & further empower the federal government via both those and other ‘crises-driven’ means.
It could not have been accomplished without a complicit media.
I fear, with the looming example of Republican complacency (or, perhaps, ‘complicity’), they will be 100% successful.
Perhaps there could be a jobs program, get the ISIS guys to shovel it, keep it clear. It would be a great investment - solve the terrorism problem, save lives - less head lopping, and the Atlantic is cleared for commerce.
The only real cost of such a project is to place the terrorists, spread them out where that snow needs a clearing.
Well, duh! You didn’t think the lines would show through 10 feet of ice and snow?
ROFLMAO! (and to all respondents) Thanks. FReeper humor BUMP!
I just expelled some greenhouse gases so I am doing my part.
Angry Yeti!
You see, global warming is causing this. The warming atmosphere (man-caused, natch) is attracting more moisture which, in turn, causes more snow to fall.
Uh oh...got to run. They’re calling me back to the nut-house.
notice that Seneca and Cayuga(below Ontario) are NOT frozen over...
Is that because it is 800 feet deep?
NOT my fault.
I’ll bet if all that snow wasn’t there you could read the names of the states. LOL!
The amazing part is how the engineers were able to create something that allowed the international boundary, crossing lakes both frozen over and not, to be seen from space. Gotta love science!
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