Arctic cold creates "cloud streets" across Great Lakes
The Arctic cold snap that is pushing through the Great Lakes today and tomorrow might make being outside feel brutally frigid, but it’s doing some really lovely things to the clouds overhead.
This freezing air pouring over our warmer Great Lakes is creating “cloud streets” - nice little organized rolls of clouds that stream parallel to the wind direction. On satellite images, it makes the weather conditions look a lot prettier than they feel.
An NOAA satellite image capturing the cloud conditions over our biggest Great Lake was shared today by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Moonlit cloud streets over Lake Superior last night flowing perfectly aligned and parallel to the cold north wind heralded the arctic blast currently descending upon the Great Lakes Region,” CIMSS meteorologists wrote. “Temperatures will be below normal to wrap up the work week and wind chills will be brutal.”
https://www.cleveland.com/weather/2020/02/arctic-cold-creates-cloud-streets-across-great-lakes.html
