Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Animated video of the 2011 North American Blizzard as shown from the perspective of a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite operated by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Animated video of the 2011 North American Blizzard[edit]
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- Reason
- This is a satellite video loop from the North American region for an approximately 72-hour period beginning 31 January and ending 2 February, during which time a rather sizable portion of the United States and parts of Canada and Mexico experienced one of the worst Winter Storms/Blizzard in history. This was one of only 16 storms to have earned a Category 5 rating on the Regional Snowfall Index. This image comes to us courtesy of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the parent organization of the US National Weather Service, which operates a number of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GEOS) - include the GOES 13 bird which captured this specific footage - in conjunction with NASA. Given that tomorrow will mark the 5 year anniversary of the event and that the original nomination missed passing by one !vote last time around, I thought it would be a good chance to renominate the image and see if it doesn't have better luck this time.
- Articles in which this image appears
- January 31 – February 2, 2011 North American blizzard
- FP category for this image
- As a guess I'd say either Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking back
- Creator
- NASA/NOAA
- Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 21:34, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
- Support presuming that there's nothing higher-res available, in which case that's preferred. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:17, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Support – Jobas (talk) 13:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
- Support – Bammesk (talk) 01:59, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:40, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
- Nomination didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:40, 11 February 2016 (UTC)