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<\/a>True Color RGB images from GOES-18 (left), GOES-17 (center) and GOES-16 (right) [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>True Color RGB images — created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> — from GOES-18 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East) (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed dense plumes of blowing dust across parts of New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma on 14 February 2023<\/strong><\/a>. Strong winds (with gusts in the 60-85 mph range) in the wake of a cold front lofted dry topsoil from areas that were experiencing Moderate to Exceptional Drought<\/strong><\/a> conditions.<\/p>\n GOES-17 (formerly GOES-West) was temporarily operating from its pre-storage checkout position over the Equator at 104.7 W longitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" True Color RGB images — created using Geo2Grid — from GOES-18 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East) (above) displayed dense plumes of blowing dust across parts of New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma on 14 February 2023. Strong winds (with gusts in the 60-85 mph range) in the wake of a cold front lofted dry topsoil from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":50534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,74,80,114,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-16","category-goes-17","category-goes-18","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50527","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=50527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50535,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50527\/revisions\/50535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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