Another round of storms with heavy rain and snow along with high winds hit California. The systems disrupted travel and left a quarter of a million customers without power. Several media and government organizations downloaded satellite videos (created by Dakota Smith) from the Satellite Library and used them in their coverage. The videos included CIRA GeoColor products. More details and urls can be found below. (POC: D. Smith, CIRA, dakota.smith@colostate.edu, S. Miller, Steven.Miller@colostate.edu) Funding: GOES-R.
NBC News: “NBC Nightly News”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D68FN73q20&t=329s
ABC7 News: “See record stats from ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ California storm”. https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-storm-rain-gauge-atmospheric-river-santa-cruz-today/12990536/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFTWznNANJ0; https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1638366320101302274
Yahoo!: “‘Truly Incredible’ Satellite Imagery Shows Latest California Storm’.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/truly-incredible-satellite-imagery-shows-121223463.html
AccuWeather: “Bomb cyclone barrels into California with tree-toppling winds, record rain”.
WeatherNation: “Check out the latest atmospheric river to hit California…”.
https://twitter.com/WeatherNation/status/1638178659130306560
Yahoo!: “Satellite Shows Latest Storm Hitting Southern California”.
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/video/satellite-shows-latest-storm-hitting-000823759.html
Storm Produces Destructive Tornado across Southern United States
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The Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) of NOAA/NESDIS conducts research on the use of satellite data to improve analysis, forecasts and warnings for regional and mesoscale meteorological events. RAMMB is co-located with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.