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True Color RGB images from @NOAASatellites #GOES16/#GOESeast showed large plumes of blowing #dust across parts of New Mexico, Texas ad Oklahoma on 22 Feb: geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu/#playing:true;…; Note the brighter white plume originating from White Sands NM. #NMwx #TXwx #OKwx
...and here's a comparison of the blowing dust plumes as viewed using True Color RGB images from 3 satellites - @NOAASatellites #GOES18/#GOESwest, #GOES17 and #GOES16/#GOESeast: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog… #NMwx #TXwx #OKwx 
This morning, evidence of the airborne dust (shades of tan) from NM/TX/OK could be seen in @NOAASatellites #GOES16/#GOESeast True Color RGB images over parts of #ILwx/#INwx/#OHwx/#MIwx/#KYwx: geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu/#playing:true;…;
I'm seeing numerous--and presumably incorrect--news reports that #Guadalajara, Mexico received "2 meters" (6.5 feet) of #hail accumulation during a thunderstorm. While the photos do show extremely impressive piles of hail, there's lots of evidence in photos/video that... (1/n)
...these enormous #hail drifts are almost certainly the result of an urban flash flood during hail-producing thunderstorm, which washed huge volumes of hail ice from around city into culverts & low-lying areas. Ice floats, so it can go wherever floodwaters do. (2/n) #Guadalajara
There are numerous documented reports of very deep hail drifts due to transport by floodwaters. A spectacular example occurred in desert of New Mexico in summer 2003. During that event, flash flooding washed hail into "glaciers" 15 feet tall! wunderground.com/cat6/record-ha… #NMwx (3/n)
