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<\/a>GOES-16 Split Window Difference images, with plots of wind barbs and gusts [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Split Window Difference<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed widespread strong winds across the Dakotas and northern Minnesota which were responsible for producing plumes of blowing dust (darker shades of gray)<\/em> — most notably from eastern North Dakota into northwestern Minnesota — on 24 May 2021<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The corresponding GOES-16 Split Window Difference images with plots of surface visibility are shown below — at 23 UTC the visibility dropped to 4 miles at Grand Forks, North Dakota as a dense dust plume moved through that location (where southwesterly winds were gusting to 31 knots at that time).<\/p>\n GOES-16 Split Window Difference images, with plots of surface visibility [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div> GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 True Color RGB images (above)<\/strong><\/em> and Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (below) <\/strong><\/em>created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> highlighted the more dense plumes of blowing dust — the source region for the more prominent dust plumes appeared to be dry agricultural fields in southeastern North Dakota that had received very little rainfall<\/strong><\/a> during the preceding week.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Ground-based lidar data from Grand Forks indicated that the dust was lofted to altitudes of around 10,000 feet. Plenty of backscatter thanks to the dust pic.twitter.com\/bQDpSIwXry<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Aaron Kennedy (@KennedyClouds) May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>
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