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<\/a>GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed that the large circulation of Hurricane Teddy<\/strong><\/a> (downgraded from a Category 2 to a Category 1 storm at 18 UTC) was drawing hazy filaments of smoke — likely originating from wildfires in the western US — southward from eastern Canada and New England, carrying it across the far western Atlantic Ocean on 22 September 2020<\/strong><\/a>. Also of interest (early in the animation) were the narrow fingers of river valley fog across parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia.<\/p>\n Although the size of Teddy’s cloud shield was still fairly large, a DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 2217 UTC from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong> <\/em>showed that no organized core of deep convection remained as the storm began to move across colder waters (Sea Surface Temperature<\/strong><\/a> | Ocean Heat Content<\/strong><\/a>) and encounter a more hostile environment of increasing deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz)<\/em> image at 2217 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n GOES-16 CIMSS Natural Color RGB images, with and without an overlay of Aerosol Optical Depth [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A larger-scale view of GOES-16 CIMSS Natural Color RGB images — with and without an overlay of Aerosol Optical Depth (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that an elongated plume of smoke stretched westward from New York and Pennsylvania to parts of Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. Upward-looking lidar data<\/strong><\/a> from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (below)<\/strong><\/em> depicted a thick layer of smoke between altitudes of 2-6 km.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>