Enhanced aerosols along a cold front in the Upper Midwest
![GOES-16 CIMSS Natural Color RGB and Aerosol Optical Depth product [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2021/06/mw_rgb-20210607_000117.png)
GOES-16 CIMSS Natural Color RGB images and Aerosol Optical Depth product [click to play animation | MP4]
The hazy signature of the cold frontal aerosols was better highlighted by GOES-16 True Color RGB images, created using Geo2Grid (below). One feature of interest was the group of long shadows cast by convective towers onto the top of the aerosol layer in central Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.
![GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href="https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2021/06/210606_goes16_trueColorRGB_Upper_Midwest_coldfront_haze_anim.mp4"><strong>MP4</strong></a>]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2021/06/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_2021158_000117Z.png)
GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]