Watch the video above: NASA’s GOES satellite captures 2014 winter storms
TORONTO – It’s been a long winter, indeed, and a NASA satellite has captured the epic winter storm season across central and eastern U.S. and Canada.
In this timelapse animation from January 1 to March 24, several winter storms move across the region.
As the timelapse progresses, it’s easy to see the Great Lakes — in particular, Lake Superior and Lake Erie — gain more ice coverage.
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The east coast of the United States and Canada endured a succession of storms during this time period. New York declared a state of emergency twice, and several major U.S. cities were shut down after experiencing some of the worst storms in decades.
In February, the southern U.S., including Georgia, Texas, Tennessee and parts of Florida, experienced a crippling winter storm that brought ice, snow, and freezing rain.
The NASA video was created by overlaying satellite data from NASA’s GOES-East satellite on top of a true-colour image of land and ocean created by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).
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