![This is a still from the movie of GOES satellite imagery compiled from February 1-16, 2010 when 2 blizzards hit the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area This is a still from the movie of GOES satellite imagery compiled from February 1-16, 2010 when 2 blizzards hit the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area](http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/435038main_blizzard2010_226.jpg)
Washington, D.C. normally averages only 16 inches of snow per year, but this year most of the season's snowfall arrived over several days and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-12 captured the storms.
NASA's GOES Project created a movie of GOES satellite data from February 1-16, 2010 when two blizzards hit the Baltimore, Md. and Washington areas. The GOES-12 operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captures images of U.S. East Coast weather continuously. Those images were compiled into a movie by the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
![Bruce Jenner, a Golden Retriever not an Olympic medalist, forges through the snow after the blizzard hit the suburbs of Maryland Bruce Jenner, a Golden Retriever not an Olympic medalist, forges through the snow after the blizzard hit the suburbs of Maryland](http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/435045main_bruce_snow_226.jpg)
During the first two weeks of February, heavy, wet snows semi-paralyzed Washington. Five inches fell on February 3, 24 inches fell on February 6, and 12 inches on February 10. A second storm followed on February 16 that dumped 10 inches on Philadelphia and New York, but spared Washington and Baltimore.
![Michael (human), Eddie (terrier mix), and Duncan (Bernese Mountain dog) from Silver Spring, MD frolic in the deep snow after the Blizzard of 2010. Michael (human), Eddie (terrier mix), and Duncan (Bernese Mountain dog) from Silver Spring, MD frolic in the deep snow after the Blizzard of 2010](http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/435043main_snow_frolic_226.jpg)
This movie was created by overlaying the clouds observed several times per hour by NOAA's GOES Imager onto a true-color map previously derived from NASA's MODIS land-mapping instrument. The infrared channels on GOES detect clouds day and night, which are portrayed as grey for low clouds and white for high clouds. During the day, the visible channel on GOES adds shadow-texture to the clouds and illuminates the snow on the ground.
![Duncan, a Bernese Mountain dog whose breed hails from Bern, Switzerland, feels very much at home in the cold and snow. Duncan, a Bernese Mountain dog whose breed hails from Bern, Switzerland, feels very much at home in the cold and snow.](http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/435047main_duncan_snow_226.jpg)
Related Links:
> GOES Blizzard movie
> GOES Programs
> GOES-15
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