GOES-16 visible images of a squall line moving across Virginia
![GOES-16 Visible (0.64 µm) images [click to play MP4 animation]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/03/960x1280_GOES16FL_B2_G16_VIS_MESO_VA_SQLN_01MAR2077_2017060_175158_0001PANEL.GIF)
GOES-16 Visible (0.64 µm) images [click to play MP4 animation]
A strong pre-cold-frontal squall line produced widespread severe weather (primarily damaging winds: SPC storm reports) across the eastern US on 01 March 2017. A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector provided imagery at 60-second intervals during a portion of the day — and ABI 0.5-km resolution Visible (0.64 µm) images (above; also available as a 79 Mbyte animated GIF) showed the well-defined squall line cloud band as it moved across Virginia. Behind the squall line, note the presence of semi-stationary mountain wave rotor clouds downwind of the Appalachian Mountains. A larger-scale animation is available here.
