Satellite View of the Blizzard of 2013

Image of Snowstorm Nemo, Fri., 2/8 at 9:01 am

This satellite image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite was taken at 9:01 am today, Feb. 8. Reminiscent of satellite photos of Sandy, which also captured merging eastern and western fronts, today's picture shows a western frontal system - stretching from Canada through the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, into the Gulf of Mexico - approaching the coastal low pressure area. The comma-shaped low pressure system located over the Atlantic, east of Virginia, is now merging with the western front to create the powerful nor'easter that is impacting our region now and will continue to do so over the rest of today and into tomorrow morning.