Month: December 2013

Mesovortex over Lake Ontario from 12 December 2013

by Dan Bikos on December 12th, 2013

A cold air mass was in place over the Great Lakes during 12 December 2013, providing for lake-effect snow across the Great Lakes.  The synthetic imagery from the 4-km NSSL WRF-ARW model initialized 0000 UTC 12 December shows the various lake-effect snowbands (low-level clouds with brightness temperatures that are not that cold relative to high Continue Reading

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