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Power Plant plume in West Virginia

By Scott Bachmeier •

GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]

GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed the signature of a power plant plume moving southeastward across West Virginia after sunset on 07 December 2020. The likely source of this plume was the Gavin Power Plant, located about 10 miles north-northeast of Gallipolis, Ohio. The power plant exhaust plume was composed of water droplets that were smaller then those of the surrounding stratus cloud layer — differences in droplet size emissivity were highlighted by this RGB combination. The plume eventually moved across the West Virginia / Virginia border around 03 UTC.

Categories: GOES-16, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images