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Beartracks

(13,507 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2024, 08:11 PM Apr 2024

White Sands looked to be blowing away yesterday

My local weatherman mentioned White Sands on the evening news yesterday, simply because you could actually see it in the satellite imagery with an airborne dust trail stretching from the National Park almost all the way to Texas due to "howling" winds. So here's yesterday's image of New Mexico at Zoom Earth, showing a prominent streak of dust and sand blowing from the site over the Sacramento Mountains on its northeastward journey.

https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite-hd/#view=33.7264,-105.6959,7z/date=2024-04-15,pm

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White Sands looked to be blowing away yesterday (Original Post) Beartracks Apr 2024 OP

Would hate to be cilla4progress Apr 2024 #1

Where is White Sands? Not labeled. Also don't see anything 4dog Apr 2024 #2

I checked the link. Still seems to show the April 15 image. Beartracks Apr 2024 #3

cilla4progress

(25,676 posts)

1. Would hate to be

Reply to Beartracks (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2024, 08:13 PM

Apr 2024

downwind.

4dog

(518 posts)

2. Where is White Sands? Not labeled. Also don't see anything

Reply to Beartracks (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2024, 10:20 PM

Apr 2024

moving from NM to TX. Different time?

Beartracks

(13,507 posts)

3. I checked the link. Still seems to show the April 15 image.

Reply to 4dog (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 17, 2024, 10:14 PM

Apr 2024

White Sands is the well-defined white-ish area northeast of Las Cruces. The streak heading off to the northeast from White Sands (it looks sort of like a comet's tail, if White Sands was a comet) is the dust and sand blowing off into the atmosphere. It gets pretty faint the farther away from White Sands it gets, but you can still make it out. On the satellite image my weatherman showed, the streak was much more visible for a longer distance.

I've zoomed in a bit more on the Zoom Earth image for this link: https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite-hd/#view=33.176584,-105.774103,9z/date=2024-04-15,pm
You can see the plume stretching across the mountains where Ruidoso is, and well beyond that.

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