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<\/a>GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Nighttime Microphysics<\/strong><\/a> RGB and Day Snow-Fog<\/strong><\/a> RGB images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the nocturnal development of lake effect fog\/stratus plumes (lighter shades of yellow), which drifted northward from Lake Sakakawea<\/strong><\/a> in northwestern North Dakota on 26 October 2022<\/strong><\/a>. Two of the fog\/stratus features moved across the Tioga and Stanley areas, where surface reports briefly indicated a drop in surface visibility to zero along with freezing fog. After sunrise, Day Snow-Fog RGB images revealed the dissipation of these lake effect fog\/stratus features — and also displayed the areal coverage of early-season snow cover (shades of red) across the Montana\/North Dakota border region.<\/p>\n The GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB image at 1001 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> includes an overlay of NOAA-20 VIIRS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) — the southerly flow of cold air (in the 20s F) across Lake Sakakawea’s SST values of 50-54\u00baF (shades of cyan) helped to create the lake effect fog\/stratus features.<\/p>\n