The featured animation is of GOES 16 satellite imagery over Iowa on 19 September 2018. The imagery shows some neat bore / gravity wave clouds resulting from thunderstorms during the day. These clouds are a result of rain cooled air being denser and pushing south into warmer northbound flow. The animation shows these clouds dissipating with time and a general outflow boundary / warm front appear with a thunderstorm eventually fire on the boundary over southern Iowa. Due to file size constraints, this animation does not depict the highest resolution in space and time now available by this new satellite. You can find great imagery like this on the College of DuPage website.

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