NASA sees records breaking as major winter storm departs

A massive blizzard with gale-force winds has paralysed the southern and eastern US Some 85 million people in at least 20 states have been in the path of the storm, with a wing span extending from Arkansas to New York Eleven states have declared emergencies and at least 18 people have died in car accidents, hypothermia or people simply attempting to shovel snow NASA and NOAA gathered night-time and daytime views of the Blizzard of 2016 from the Suomi NPP and the GOES-East satellites NASA's GPM satellite provided a look at the moisture wrapping into the storm from the Atlantic Ocean. The 2016 blizzard occurred just 4 days before 2015's major northeast blizzard This storm set quite a number of snowfall records in the Mid-Atlantic north to New York City on January 23, 2016 In the Baltimore/Washington metro area, all three airports recorded record snowfall according to NOAA's National Weather Service NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this rare view of "thundersnow" in a blizzard battering the U.S. East Coast on Saturday (Jan. 23) from a window on the International Space Station NASA satellite imagery captured the size of the massive winter storm that continued to pummel the U.S. East Coast early on January 23, 2016 However, the worst seems to be over. The Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service said at 1000 PM EST on Sunday, January 24… “Historic winter storm has ended across the mid-atlantic and new England... All warnings in the mid-atlantic and the northeast have expired.”