(Phys.org)—A powerful cold front moving from the central United
States to the East Coast is wiping out spring-like temperatures
and replacing them with winter-time temperatures with powerful
storms in between. An image released from NASA using data from
NOAA's GOES-13 satellite provides a stunning look at the
powerful system that brings a return to winter weather in its
wake. On Jan. 30 at 1825 UTC (1:25 p.m. EST), NOAA's GOES-13
satellite captured an image of clouds associated with the strong
cold front. The visible GOES-13 image shows a line of clouds
that stretch from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast and contain
powerful thunderstorms with the potential to be severe. The
front is moving east to the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA's GOES-13
satellite continually provides real-time visible and infrared
imagery of weather over the eastern United States. The NASA GOES
Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Md., created the image from GOES data. The colorized
image uses GOES-13 satellite visible