![]() Stay Wild magazine (2015, February 24) The Slurpee Waves of Nantucket.National Weather Service Eastern Region (2015, February 20) Low Temperature Records Set or Tied.National Weather Service Eastern Region (2015, February 24) Low Temperature Records Set or Tied.The Providence Journal (2015, February 25) Coast Guard warns of severe marine ice.NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (2015) Great Lakes Ice Cover.Mashable (2015, February 20) What the extreme eastern U.S.hot with the most unusually cold air of any region in the world this week. freezes, there’s less cold air in winter than ever before. Capital Weather Gang at The Washington Post (2015, February 25) Even as the eastern U.S.The Boston Globe (2015, February 26) The 2015 Boston Snowpocalypse, From Above.The following two images (from February 15) come from the Landsat 8 OLI and show closer views, including ice streamers. It shows ice in Delaware Bay-between New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware-and in the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay between Maryland and Delaware. The first image was captured on February 24 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Overall, the five Great Lakes combined were 84.1 percent ice covered.īelow you can see a trio of images showing the Mid-Atlantic region. As of February 27, Lake Erie was 95.9 percent covered in ice, while Lake Ontario was at 48.9 percent. Note how a manmade ice boom keeps the mouth of the Niagara River clear near Buffalo, New York. On February 20, 2015, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a natural-color view (above) of the U.S.-Canadian border along the Niagara River. Snow and ice have blanketed land surfaces from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, from the Carolinas to Maine. Several satellites captured views of the frozen landscape from above, observing saltwater sea ice in East Coast harbors and freshwater ice in the Great Lakes and other inland waterways. The coldest days of the year usually occur in January, yet February 2015 has been exceptional in many places. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of records have been set for daily low temperatures, and wave after wave of ice and snowstorms have hit the region. The eastern half of the United States has been trapped in a deep freeze for most of February 2015.
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