GOES Images of Major Blowing Dust Event in Texas and New Mexico

The CIMSS Satellite Blog was updated with a post containing a comparison of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-11, GOES-15, and GOES-13 visible and shortwave IR images which showed a very large blowing dust cloud moving rapidly southward across the Texas/New Mexico border region on 17 October 2011.

The blowing dust reduced surface visibilities to near zero in some locations as winds gusted as high as 75 mph.

GOES-11 (left), GOES-15 (center), and GOES-13 (right) visible channel images showing a large dust plume which was moving rapidly southward across the Texas/New Mexico border region on 17 October 2011.

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