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Satellite Sees a Sharp Line in Weather Today
Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
This NOAA GOES-13 satellite image from Dec. 17 at 1631 UTC (11:31 a.m. EST) shows clouds associated with a frontal system as a very sharp line stretching from Texas to the U.S. northeast.
According to the National Weather Service’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (NOAA/HPC) in College Park, Md. The sharp line of clouds is associated with a "complex storm system over the eastern third of the nation." That storm system includes a surface low pressure area that is moving northward through the upper Great Lakes and Canada. However, there’s another low developing over the Ohio Valley that is expected to bring more organized precipitation to the Eastern U.S.
NOAA’s HPC notes that "conditions should clear out across the Carolinas and southeast by early Tuesday, Dec. 18 once the low tracks into the northeast and the trailing cold front pushes eastward into the Atlantic. That low, however is not expected to quit as it is forecast to intensify off the New England coast and bring moderate to heavy precipitation in the northeast on Dec. 18 and 19.
The GOES-13 image was created at NASA’s GOES Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., using data from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite.
Rob Gutro
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Image Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project
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