A GOES-13 Visible (0.63 µm) image (above) showed a bank of fog and low stratus (FLS) covering much of the western portion of Lake Superior at 1600 UTC on 03 November 2015. Overlays of Metop ASCAT and Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) surface winds showed the long fetch of northeasterly winds that were moving this FLS feature toward the southwest; this southwestward (and eventual inland) advection could be followed on GOES-13 Visible images (below).

A more detailed view of the FLS deck was provided by a 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 µm) image at 1848 UTC, with overlays of METAR surface reports, RTMA surface winds, and surface frontal analysis (below).

The GOES-R Low Cloud Thickness product shown below (derived using GOES-13 data) indicated that the maximum depth of the FLS feature was around 2200 feet (yellow color enhancement).