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The culprit is a familiar one: the polar vortex.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Michael Carlowicz.

Published January 29, 2019
Data acquired January 27 - 29, 2019

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Terra > MODIS