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.”
Wow! You really can see the state borders from space.
Breaking century old records by 3 to 6 degrees is astonishing. The past couple years have not been brief cold snaps breaking a couple of records by one or two degrees. The breadth and depth of these cold air masses and snow cover in that photo look a lot like the coverage of the ice sheets 11,000 years ago in the Wisconsin ice age.
Lol.
Imagine how much worse it would be if it weren’t for Global Warming®! /s
UH-mazing!
I wish everyone would breathe harder, we need more CO2!
I’m freezing my butt off.
I eagerly await sycophantic explanations from NASA’s Hansen et al who will attribute this to rogue (yet predicted by their ‘models’) happenstance are the fault of Global Warming and the careless insistence of some redneck barbequing some ribs in Georgia using [gasp!] charcoal in the back of his American Made F150 tailgating at a NASCAR race.....:0)
ITS A PHOTOSHOPPED LIE!
Every one knows the planet is heating up.
Looks like the Atlantic ocean is covered in snow too!
Every SUV owner needs to get into theirs and start doing doughnuts!
22 degrees here today feels like a heatwave after -18 a little more than 24 hours ago.
Yes, it's really amazing what prison labor can accomplish.
During the 1960s, they used to have chain gangs out there, digging trenches to mark the state lines. They then filled the trenches with black asphalt and viola! State lines could now be seen by spacecraft, ensuring that astronauts would no longer get lost.
Warm globally, cool locally!
LOL!
The warmer it gets the colder I feel.
Now everyone remember you can’t go by the weather on any particular day as evidence about whether global warming is real.
Or I should say you can’t go by extreme cold in the winter. Hot summer days are used as evidence of climate change, but extreme cold is not evidence of anything going on.
At least that skis what I have gleaned from liberals on this subject.
SW Va we have over 2 ft of snow on the ground- and warm rains will come tonight and tomorrow and wash it all off.
Keeping my ark handy...
You can see one of these asphalt borders still under construction on the ice of Lake Michigan
If I remember correctly, you are in Michigan. It’s 25 here in Virgina and that was a warm up from yesterday. When I got up yesterday my digital temperature gauge read 0.7, coldest I can ever remember it getting here since I moved here almost 40 years ago.
(I used to live in Oconto County, WI, so I know what minus temps are like, you have my sympathies)
Best laugh of the morning; thx.
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