Satellite Image of the Day: February 23, 2005
 (click here for previous images of the day from RUSMART)

NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

Satellites: NOAA-15 and NOAA-17, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

 Storm A-comin'
The moisture that had been driven across the southern US is now approaching the east coast.
The "southern jet stream" responsible for this phenomenon had been shown in a series of three images from the Image of the Day from Feb. 19.
In these two images, taken approximately 1:45 apart, you can see the storm approaching the mid-atlantic states, which--at the time of the left-hand image--were sitting under beautiful, clear, blue skies.
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Image acquired~11:00am
Note how clear the skies over the Carolinas and Virginia are--deceptively clear.		 Image acquired~12:45pm
You can see where this southern system came from, leaving moisture in its track across the southwestern US.