(Updated at 6:26 p.m. ET) An intense “bomb cyclone” is battering the U.S. East Coast today (Jan. 4), with high winds and intense snowfall forecast for the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states. “The storm will produce heavy snow along the Mid-Atlantic Coast into Southern New England by Thursday morning that will move northward into the Northeast by Thursday afternoon, while ending over the Mid-Atlantic Coast by Thursday evening,” the National Weather Service wrote in an alert. [Bombogenesis: What’s a ‘Bomb Cyclone’? ]
NOAA and NASA satellites are tracking the major snowstorm from space. See their latest views below.
#GOESEast captured the full path of the #BombCyclone exhibiting a rare and extremely rapid rate of intensification on the East Coast with some of the coldest wind chills of the season and near zero visibility in the snow bands @NWS . #Blizzard2018 More: https://t.co/mbgRYot60A pic.twitter.com/GKlFTaLJBI
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) January 4, 2018
#SuomiNPP caught these eye-popping visible and infrared images of the #Noreaster #BombCyclone intensifying off the North Carolina coast early this morning. More awesome satellite imagery here: https://t.co/mbgRYot60A pic.twitter.com/gKuk0hpgrO
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) January 4, 2018
The Air Mass RGB product from @NOAA ‘s #GOES16 satellite helps to diagnose the environment during deep cyclogenesis by enhancing temperature and moisture characteristics of air masses, as is the case this morning with the deepening storm off the US east coast. #blizzard pic.twitter.com/GIut3RVl8w
— NASA SPoRT (@NASA_SPoRT) January 4, 2018
Wondering about the shape of the #blizzard ? The powerful midlatitude #BombCyclone has several meso-vortices spinning within its center, #GOESEast ABI captured these images of the storm every minute today. #snowday See more #cool GOES imagery here: https://t.co/mbgRYot60A pic.twitter.com/Zzab51uurp
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) January 4, 2018
Mesovortices near the center of the deepening east coast cyclone, as seen by @NOAA ‘s #GOES16 1-minute visible imagery. #blizzard pic.twitter.com/p4p7bMIWwm
— NASA SPoRT (@NASA_SPoRT) January 4, 2018
This morning’s #GOESEast view of the powerful #BombCyclone as it batters the East Coast with heavy snow and strong winds. #noreaster #blizzard2018 . More satellite imagery: https://t.co/mbgRYot60A pic.twitter.com/qblv8x5QcM
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) January 4, 2018
Here’s a 24-hour @NOAA #GOES16 infrared loop showing the evolution of the deepening east coast cyclone. #blizzard pic.twitter.com/1jafoM9t30
— NASA SPoRT (@NASA_SPoRT) January 4, 2018
The @NOAA #GOES16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper continues to detect #lightning flashes in heavy snow on Long Island and Southeast CT. Here are two lightning flashes at 1354 UTC. #blizzard pic.twitter.com/6C3YTG3FXK
— NASA SPoRT (@NASA_SPoRT) January 4, 2018
Gravity waves propagating outward from deep convection associated with a #BombCyclone off the Carolina coast. @NOAA #GOES16 infrared imagery. pic.twitter.com/sxPfIih8OT
— NASA SPoRT (@NASA_SPoRT) January 4, 2018
Cyclone rapidly deepening off the US east coast. @NOAA #GOES16 water vapor imagery. pic.twitter.com/ZP8NxplK3y
— NASA SPoRT (@NASA_SPoRT) January 4, 2018
NOAA’s #GOESEast captures #FloridaSnow in Tallahassee today and the first effects of the #BombCyclone forecast to impact the East Coast with severe cold and snow. #WinterIsHere . More #cool GOES imagery: https://t.co/mbgRYot60A pic.twitter.com/VM2RNUaopD
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) January 3, 2018
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