Thus, OLR provides a satellite-eye view of clouds from storm systems around the globe, including the developing blizzard across the eastern United States.
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Ready or not, snow storm Jonas is making its way across the East Coast. NASA’s GPM and NOAA’s GOES satellites are providing data on rainfall, cloud heights, extent and movement of the storm.
This winter storm, dubbed Jonas by the Weather Channel, could cripple areas from Tennessee to Boston. It showed precipitation falling at 2.5 inches per hour over northern Alabama at the time.
The National Weather service has an interactive map that shows the latest snowfall predictions. The animation and images were created by the NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA Goddard.
In Massachusetts, the impact all depends on the track of the storm.
The storm system is expected to bring an increased risk of severe weather from far southeastern Texas across southern Louisiana/Mississippi, and into the far western Florida Panhandle on Thursday, Jan. 21.
The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning is in effect for Martha’s Vineyard in Massachustts and Block Island in Rhode Island beginning Saturday afternoon. To the south, a quarter to half inch of ice accumulations across parts of the interior Carolinas outside the mountains – with lighter amounts expected in Kentucky and over the much of the central/eastern Carolinas.
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite snapped this image of the approaching blizzard around 2:35 a.m. EST on January 22, 2016 using the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument’s Day-Night band.
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While one winter storm is threatening the Eastern U.S., another weather system is affecting the Pacific Northwest, Gutro wrote.
