Shear vortices over the Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley
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A well-defined train of wind shear vortices was revealed on GOES-16 Water Vapor images — Upper-level (6.2 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Lower-level (7.3 µm) — propagating westward over the Great Lakes on 07 June 2017 (above).A larger-scale view using Mid-level 6.9 µm images (below) showed additional (and larger) vortices which were moving eastward over... Read More