Satellite Image of the Day: February 18, 2008
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NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

NOAA's National Hurricane Center

Satellites: NOAA-15, NOAA 16, NOAA 17 and NOAA-18, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

Something is wrong with this picture...

At this time of the winter, when things have--or should have--been cold for quite some time, Hudson Bay (left) should be frozen solid.
Ungava Bay, with Akpatok Island in its middle and on the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador should also be frozen...but it's not.
One should be able to walk completely across both of these bodies of water by now.
If, that is, things were as cold as they should be...