You know the drill : when it snows on America ’s East coast , everyone else has to translate dateless explanations of “ weather dud ” and “ diametric vortices , ” no matter of where on Earth they know . But you have to let in , this thing looks amazing .
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s go bad satellite snap this picture of winter storm Grayson hammering the United States ’ East Coast . I in the main conceive winter storm name are a dumb idea , but this violent storm validate just how acute a Nor’easter can be .
You belike have already show about what ’s choke on , so I ’ll be brief : You ’re looking at affectionate air from the Gulf of Mexico intersecting with frigid air in the North . The two spiral into one another and create a cyclone . This produces the conditions “ bomb calorimeter , ” or the pressure dropping precipitously : at least 24 millibars in 24 hours .
This is chiefly jargon , and what ’s crucial here is that it ’s snowing a crapload and the images are amazing . Here ’s the injection of the entire earth :
And here ’s the Doppler radar show what the East seacoast looks like now :
The GOES - East satellite is update intermittently , and you cankeep find out here . If you ’re braving the storm , outride inside and do n’t ordain takeout . If you ’re in the rest of the world , savour these amazing weather photograph and maybe a little schadenfreude .
[ NOAA ]
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