“River effect” cloud bands and blowing snow in South Dakota
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GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Snow-Fog RGB images (above) showed several well-defined “river effect” cloud plumes — resulting from cold arctic air flowing across unfrozen portions of the Lake Oahe reservoir along the Missouri River — in addition to widespread horizontal convective rolls (indicative of significant blowing snow and ground blizzard conditions) across parts of... Read More