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)."
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Badge,
it’s in pretty good shape now! The fish have come back, and it’s quite clean. We used to have the big Sohio refinery, and a whole bunch of steel plants. Republic, etc., with their blast furnaces going 24/7. Of course back then, anyone who wanted to work had a job in The Flats. Not so much anymore!
Bogie
Heh, Brilliant!. Next time I have an argument the space-time continuum with Stephen Hawking, I'll use Hot Tub Time Machine 2 to prove my point.
At one time Cleveland had more headquarters of Fortune Five Hundred companies than any other city in the world.
Dr Bogus , what part of Cleveland are you from? I am a left coast transplant from Collinwood.
We have the best gardening military supply around here - Zamzows.
I’m in Northfield Center. Eggs Ackley halfway between Cleveburg And Dakron! Small town, in the little corner of Summit County that juts into Cuyahoga county.
Lake Ontario, you mean.
“I am a left coast transplant from Collinwood.”
I think my school, University School, may have played sports against Collinwood? Long time ago, but I seem to remember a track meet?
LOL. . .
Wonder why there is that swath of central Illinois into Indiana doesn’t have any snow?
It represents a boundary between two of the major air masses which had already been depleted of water vapor elsewhere where they made contact with each other.
OK, I can understand the technical reason but it does make the photo much more interesting.
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