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NASA Snaps Picture of Eastern U.S. in a Record-Breaking "Freezer"
NASA ^ | February 20, 2015 | NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

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 ...


TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; gruberwarming; modis; nasa; terra
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Indeed. It’s 12 Celsius here in Calgary right now and we had a record of 20 a couple of weeks ago.

I love it!

Cheers,
Jim


41 posted on 02/23/2015 2:26:24 PM PST by gymbeau (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: WhiskeyX

By 2020 this same photo will have been “smoothed” so that it more accurately depicts the lack of snow and heavy early vegetation that occurred in February of 2015.


42 posted on 02/23/2015 2:27:00 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

14 degrees right now in Chelsea, Michigan. Ready for spring.


43 posted on 02/23/2015 2:27:22 PM PST by fivecatsandadog ( IMPEACH THE TRAITOR. But don't loose your head over it.)
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To: cripplecreek

Well IF the wind is calm, or at least close to calm, that isn’t a bad situation for a short walk outside.

Now you add a 10 mph “breeze” and all of a sudden it gets a bit more brisk.


44 posted on 02/23/2015 2:28:11 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Red Badger

“All that white! Must be RACISTS!............
LOL!


45 posted on 02/23/2015 2:30:13 PM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: nascarnation

46 posted on 02/23/2015 2:33:11 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It is finally up to 32 here-might get to 45 tomorrow-heat wave!


47 posted on 02/23/2015 2:33:51 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It was -10F on my car thermometer this morning in Minneapolis. Another reinforcing shot is on its way to points south. Enjoy!


48 posted on 02/23/2015 2:35:34 PM PST by toast
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To: WhiskeyX
It's not freezing, Al Gore said so, and he is the self appoited expert!
49 posted on 02/23/2015 2:35:36 PM PST by Duckdog (If it wasn't for NASCAR my TV would have gone out the window years ago!)
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To: Red Badger

“Why is Lake Erie not frozen? Is it still on fire?.”

It’s frozen solid. Shallowest of the Lakes. And it was the Cuyahoga River that “burned.” It’s in darn good shape now.


50 posted on 02/23/2015 2:37:54 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah the prospect of above 32F is still quite a ways off.

One problem around here is that ponds and such freeze but not enough to really bear weight. So you get folks falling in, often not surviving. A lot of times kids aren’t told to stay the heck off the ice unless someone can validate the thickness. It seems like when I was young, EVERYBODY knew that, but maybe it’s selective memory.


51 posted on 02/23/2015 2:38:52 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: cripplecreek

I was going to walk the trail by the river early this morning, but the mist became sleet and there was already ice on the rocks. There are buds on some of the trees, though...


52 posted on 02/23/2015 2:39:12 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Well, yeah, all the bad stuff burned off!................


53 posted on 02/23/2015 2:42:44 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: tflabo

I had a bit of fun with my libinlaw the other night wrt the butter/cholesterol thing,

especially because she’s a dietician.

So... they’ve decided that butter’s not bad for you, eh?

>Well... sort of.. it’s the cholesteral that’s not bad for you.

So... how did they change it from being bad to being good? They’re scientists, right? They’re right. They were right then AND they are right now, right?

>Don’t be ridiculous.

And the scientists are right about Global Warming, right?


54 posted on 02/23/2015 2:44:27 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: WhiskeyX

Local ‘weatherman’ just announced that this February will finish as the COLDEST in soviet Red Hampshire history. LOL...now the communists here have something else in common with mother Russia...Siberia. Some say 30 more years of these winters are in the offing.


55 posted on 02/23/2015 2:46:17 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; All
The current temp in Anchorage is 43 degrees.

And here at my place in southern New Mexico, it was 5F overnight low, and all the way up to 24F now.

Were it not for AlGore's great efforts to save us from global warming, I'd have to use my freezer to make ice, rather than just setting the water outside.

56 posted on 02/23/2015 2:47:25 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Speaking of not frozen. Look closely along the south bank of the Illinois River around Ottawa and east to Braidwood. There are two small lakes that are not frozen. Why? Because they’re cooling ponds for a couple of nuclear power plants.


57 posted on 02/23/2015 2:50:31 PM PST by Corey Ohlis (Visualize Swirled Peas)
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To: LegendHasIt
Had someone do that. . .you see. . .with globull warming more moisture is in the air due to evaporation and this causes more snow, sleet and changes weather patterns. . .(and this guy actually referenced “The Day After” movie as an example of what he was talking about).
58 posted on 02/23/2015 2:55:30 PM PST by Hulka
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To: Red Badger

Lake Onterio. . .I believe that is what you meant to say. . .


59 posted on 02/23/2015 2:56:59 PM PST by Hulka
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I was wondering if the cold coming down to the east wasn’t causing a vacuum to the west so I peeked at one of my favorite sites and seems there’s some warm air headed north from hawaii.

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-178.07,37.71,530


60 posted on 02/23/2015 3:22:08 PM PST by huldah1776
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