Thirty years ago, one of the largest and worst winter storms in U.S. history struck the eastern third of the nation. Learn more about this 1993 Superstorm, AKA: the Blizzard of '93/the StormOfTheCentury, through the eyes of NOAA satellites:
,” it was one of the largest and worst winter storms in U.S. history when it struck the eastern third of the nation 30 years ago.14, 1993, millions of people living along the track of the storm saw record snowfall accumulations, record-low temperatures, record-low barometer readings, and winds exceeding 100 mph at times.
at NOAA’s National Weather Service. This storm marked the first time all the components of the modernized NWS came together to usher in a new era where numerical weather prediction models would provide great advancements in weather forecasting. From the perspective of NOAA satellites, the storm was massive—stretching from Canada to Central America at one point. Back in 1993, ourof geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites was still years away. But the images and data NOAA satellites sent back to scientists and forecasters were nonetheless invaluable for tracking the storm from its explosive beginnings to its eventual demise.
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