A nor'easter on January 4, 2022, dumped up to 14 inches of snow in Virginia and Maryland. The image was taken by Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory.
A band of snow blankets the United States northeast in a new satellite photo showing a huge storm stranding motorists on I-95 in Virginia.
The storm dumped more than 14 inches of snow on southern Virginia and southern Maryland, and was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite.
Motorists were stuck up to 24 hours on Virginia's I-95, one of the busiest stretches of highway in the country, as jackknifed tractor-trailers and other accidents caused a large backup of traffic over dozens of miles.
Arlin Tellez told The New York Times that it had been horrible. Tellez was stuck in her car for three days with no food or water.
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The VIIRS instrument on the #NOAA20 satellite captured the snowy aftermath from Monday's winter storm across Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.
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Tellez said there was no way for them to know what was happening. "When we tried to call the police, they told us to hang on tight, because they were our only resource."
The Times was told by Virginia State Police that there were no serious injuries or deaths among the stranded motorists. At least five deaths have been reported by the storm.
A nor'easter is a type of storm present in the northeastern United States with attributes such as heavy rain or snow, as well as winds of gale force, rough seas, and occasionally, coastal flooding.
The storms arise when the polar jet stream collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. The difference in temperature between the warm air over the water and the cold air over the land feeds nor'easters, according to the website of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
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