23 January 2013
Lake Effect Snow Machine Running in High Gear
Posted by Dan Satterfield
This true colour image from the NASA Terra satellite on Tuesday. Cold and dry Arctic air is picking up moisture over the Great Lakes and dumping heavy snows on the lee shores. Click for much higher resolution.
SNOWFALL FROM NWS
The coldest air in two years has moved into the Northeast and Midwest and with the Great Lakes still not frozen, the heavy snows are really falling in the snow belts. Here in Maryland today we did not reach freezing all day, and will not again tomorrow either.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
John Freeland said on 25 January 2013
Fabulous sat photo from Terra.