13 March 2015
Fall Streaks On GOES Imagery
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Broadcast Metr. Katie Vossel shared this image from today in South Texas on Facebook.
Fall streaks are an amazing phenomena and when they happen, we meteorologists get inundated with calls from the public. We usually miss the calls because we are all out taking pics of them, and rarely conditions can be just right to see a lot of them. This happened in West Virginia/Kentucky yesterday, and they were clearly visible in the visible GOES Satellite images as well. You can see them below in the images captured by NWS Charleston, and by the way I’ve written about them in the past here.
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.