Satellite Sees Winter Snows Come to the Ohio Valley, Mid-West and Northeast

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A low pressure area near Lake Ontario is bringing snows from New England back through the Ohio Valley and upper Mid-West. Snows stretch as south along the Blue Ridge mountains along the Appalachian range. Heavy snows are forecast today in Vermont and northern and western New York State today.

This image from NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 was taken on January 13, 2012 at 1631 UTC (11:31 a.m. EST). The image shows the cloud cover associated with the low over Lake Ontario, and associated cold front now out over the Atlantic Ocean. Winds behind the front are bringing below freezing wind chills to the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. today.

Near the top of the image appears a more shaded white color in Canada, and that is snow on the ground.
The image was created at NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA's GOES Project launches the GOES satellites for NOAA, who manages them. NASA's GOES Project also creates images and animations from GOES satellite data.

Image: NASA GOES Project
Caption: NASA, Rob Gutro