Last weekend (January 22-24),a massive winter storm moved across the eastern United States, dumping near-record amounts of snow from West Virginia through southern New York and causing major coastal flooding from Virginia to New England. Yet while those of us on the East Coast were busy dealing with the effects of the storm, the instruments aboard NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP were busy documenting them from its orbit 540 miles above the Earth.
The following web page from the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) offers a variety of animations and images detailing the storm in its entirety. From lunar reflectance and true-color imagery to animations on snowfall rate and temperature, the information presented here shows how data from satellites like Suomi NPP can play a crucial role in not only tracking severe weather, but in documenting its aftermath to improve future forecasts as well.
Check it out at http://go.usa.gov/cEq3W
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