NASA satellite - Major Winter Storm Takes Aim at Central U.S.

[tabatha]

NASA image release January 31, 2011

This visible image was captured by the GOES-13 satellite and shows the low pressure area bringing snowfall to the Midwest Jan. 31, 2011. Heavy snow is expected today in portions of northern Iowa, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Snowfall from the system extends from Michigan west to Montana, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. A mix of rain and snow also stretches into the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, and it is all moving east. This system appears to be as large as 1/3rd of the Continental U.S. The image was created on Jan. 31 at 12:45 p.m. EST (1745 UTC) by the NASA GOES Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The GOES series of satellites are operated by NOAA.

Image Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
Text Credit: Rob Gutro, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

[Xenotime]

1. It like that movie The Day After Tomorrow

[Canuckistanian]

2. I'd rather be in one of those little blue places

Just off Florida.

[yourout]

3. As would I..........as would I.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Hey! I think I see my house!

[Desertrose]

5. So where are the borders that divide us from those "other" countries?

Oh right...only in our minds...

Gee maybe we ARE all one.....

Awesome image. What a beautiful planet we live on...we should take better care of her.



Stay warm & safe everyone under all those clouds!!
:hug:

[BlueJazz]

6. So much for that Global warning stuff.

K

[tabatha]

8. Is that sarcasm?

Or have you not read any explanation for why this is happening - and other normally cold places are way too warm?

[BlueJazz]

9. The "K" was supposed to be the Sarcasm icon. My Bad.

[madrchsod]

7. 78-79 was worse around here...86in total snowfall