![]() 11.6C shows mostly clear skies over the interior Pacific Northwest United States. Reproduced with permission from College of DuPage NEXLAB: GOES-16 imagery, available online at. Brighter white indicates more reflective, and thus thicker clouds. ![]() VIS satellite imagery from GOES-16 at 18Z 3 July 2017 over (A) Florida and surrounding waters, (B) the US Mid-Atlantic states, and (C) the Pacific Northwest of the United States and far southwestern Canada. The gray wispy clouds to the south are cirrus, and if we were to animate the image, we would see them racing off to the east with the jet stream.įig. 11.6A), suggesting that they are less thick than cumulonimbus, likely towering cumulus or stratocumulus. Notice that the clouds in Pennsylvania, while bright, are not quite as bright white as the thunderstorms over Florida ( Fig. 11.6B, there is a clear contrast between the thicker clouds located throughout most of Pennsylvania and the thin wispy gray features to the south over Maryland, Washington, District of Columbia, and Virginia. 11.6A closely, we can see that the anvils on the edges of the cumulonimbus appear gray, because they are thinner. We know they are thunderstorms because of their cellular shape and bright white color, which indicates very thick clouds. 11.6A, there are numerous thunderstorms (cumulonimbus) located over Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. 11.6 shows three VIS images from the same time on 3 July 2017.
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