Wondering about the shape of the #blizzard2018? The powerful midlatitude #BombCyclone has several meso-vortices spinning within its center, the GOES East ABI captured these images of the storm every minute.
<p>In case you want to brush up on your #weather vocab - meso-vortices are areas of small-scale air circulation within a storm system. #TheMoreYouNOAA
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This animation was created with the Advanced Baseline Imager's (ABI) Band 2 and shows how the increased resolution offered by ABI is providing meteorologists with a more detailed look at the characteristics and structure of clouds. The reference to "1-minute" imagery refers to the frequency with which GOES-16's Advanced Baseline Imager captures an image of the storm.
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