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Blowing dust across the Plains

By Scott Bachmeier •

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

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

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust RGB images (above) displayed signatures of blowing dust (brighter shades of pink) moving southward across eastern Colorado and over the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandle region on 23 December 2020. The dust source region appeared to be eastern Colorado, where wind gusts in excess of 60 knots were observed during the morning hours.

GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (below) showed the lighter tan colored signature of these areas of blowing dust.

GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]

GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]

Additional details of this event are available on the Satellite Liaison Blog.

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