NASA has released images of North America covered by the massive winter storm that last week hit 30 states.
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) that cover the U.S. weather, GOES-11 and GOES-13 are operated by NOAA, and the NASA GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. creates images and animations from those satellite data.
Dennis Chesters, a NASA GOES Project scientist at Goddard provided some guidance in looking at satellite images to find snow on the ground. “Wooded regions like the Appalachians and Midwest river valleys can remain dark even with a foot of snow on the ground,” Chesters said. “Metropolitan areas like Chicago are dark due to urban development like cleared highways and parking lots.”
Source: NASA
