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January 11, 2011 - Southeastern United States
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A high pressure system over the southeastern United States brought a striking clear day along with bitter cold temperatures across the region on January 3, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite captured this true-color image that same day.
The winter chill caused temperatures to dip to the low 20°s F throughout most of the region overnight. Even northern Florida was frozen – Gainesville recorded a low of 31°F. Because valuable citrus crops are very sensitive to frost damage, growers sprayed the trees with water to form a layer of ice, which protects the crop itself from freezing.
In the northeast corner of the image, snow covers eastern New Jersey and Long Island, New York. The southwest corner of Connecticut can also be seen blanketed in white. Near the center of the image, the Appalachian Mountains are covered in white across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland and western Virginia. A light dusting of snow brushes the landscape in several small, other widely scattered areas.
The same day this image was captured, the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) reported the deaths of tens of thousands of fish in the Chesapeake Bay. In this image, the Chesapeake Bay can be seen as the long north-south oriented body of water which flows through Maryland and on the eastern edge of Virginia. Although the Bay waters appear tan in places due to large amounts of sediment, the MDE believes the fish deaths are not due to water quality problems, but are the result of cold stress in the shallow waters of the Bay during the last week of December, 2010.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 1/02/2011
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
A high pressure system over the southeastern United States brought a striking clear day along with bitter cold temperatures across the region on January 3, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite captured this true-color image that same day.
The winter chill caused temperatures to dip to the low 20°s F throughout most of the region overnight. Even northern Florida was frozen – Gainesville recorded a low of 31°F. Because valuable citrus crops are very sensitive to frost damage, growers sprayed the trees with water to form a layer of ice, which protects the crop itself from freezing.
In the northeast corner of the image, snow covers eastern New Jersey and Long Island, New York. The southwest corner of Connecticut can also be seen blanketed in white. Near the center of the image, the Appalachian Mountains are covered in white across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Maryland and western Virginia. A light dusting of snow brushes the landscape in several small, other widely scattered areas.
The same day this image was captured, the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) reported the deaths of tens of thousands of fish in the Chesapeake Bay. In this image, the Chesapeake Bay can be seen as the long north-south oriented body of water which flows through Maryland and on the eastern edge of Virginia. Although the Bay waters appear tan in places due to large amounts of sediment, the MDE believes the fish deaths are not due to water quality problems, but are the result of cold stress in the shallow waters of the Bay during the last week of December, 2010.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 1/02/2011
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
