![\"GOES-16](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/960x1280_GOES16FL_B2_G16_VIS_MESO_VA_SQLN_01MAR2077_2017060_175158_0001PANEL.GIF\")
<\/a>GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Note: GOES-16 data shown on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing on-orbit testing.<\/p>\n
A strong pre-cold-frontal squall line produced widespread severe weather (primarily damaging winds: SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>) across the eastern US on 01 March 2017. A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector provided imagery at 60-second intervals during a portion of the day — and ABI<\/strong><\/a> 0.5-km resolution Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above; <\/strong>also available as a 79 Mbyte animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed the well-defined squall line cloud band as it moved across Virginia.\u00a0 Behind the squall line, note the presence of semi-stationary mountain wave rotor clouds downwind of the Appalachian Mountains. A larger-scale animation is available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note: GOES-16 data shown on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing on-orbit testing. A strong pre-cold-frontal squall line produced widespread severe weather (primarily damaging winds: SPC storm reports) across the eastern US on 01 March 2017. A GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector provided imagery at 60-second intervals during a portion of the day — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23194,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23184\/revisions\/23194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed the well-defined squall line cloud band as it moved across Virginia.\u00a0 Behind the squall line, note the presence of semi-stationary mountain wave rotor clouds downwind of the Appalachian Mountains. A larger-scale animation is available](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/03\/170301_goes16_visible_band2_VA_squall_line_anim.gif\"){kind=link}