GOES-11 Captures the "Pineapple Express"

[tabatha]

NASA/GOES image captured December 19, 2010 at 1 PM EST.

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-11 captured an image of the famous "Pineapple Express" at 1800 UTC (1 p.m. EST) on December, 19, 2010. Occasionally in the winter, a large jet stream forms across the mid-Pacific, carrying a continuous flow of moisture from the vicinity of Hawaii to California, bringing heavy rain and snow to the Sierra-Nevada for several days. This flow has been dubbed "The Pineapple Express." GOES satellites are managed by NOAA and images and animations from the GOES satellites are created by the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. That IS a cool piccie, at five I am turning to the local

news...

I should have done that at 4:30.. never pay attention to them, but this is a NASTY storm.

[XemaSab]

2. LA has had an inch more rain than Redding has

this water year. :P

[tabatha]

3. Yes, tomorrow morning should be interesting.

I hope there is not too much damage, with lots of saturated soil it is dicey.

[mahina]

4. Back that thing up a coupla thousand miles

and check out the rainclouds moving in on us out here, which will be heading on to CA next.

Too much all at once!