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Archive: Tue Mar 2019

Snow melt across the Upper Midwest

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) images (above) revealed a darkening signature resulting from a brief period of snow melt during the daytime hours on 12 March 2019. As a southerly flow of warm air (coupled with abundant solar insolation) began to melt the top surface of the deep snow cover,... Read More