Blowing dust across New Mexico and Texas
GOES-16 Dust RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust RGB images (above) highlighted the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust (brighter shades of pink/magenta) across parts of New Mexico and Texas on 17 March 2022. Surface visibility was reduced to 1.5 miles at some locations, with wind gusts in the 40-50 knot range (a peak wind of 56 knots was recorded at Dalhart in the Texas Panhandle) .
GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (below) provided another view of the blowing dust plumes (shades of tan to light brown), as well as a few narrow plumes of smoke (dull shades of white) from wildfires that spread quickly due to the strong winds.
GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]