A Frozen Atmospheric Turkey Kind of Thanksgiving

On November 23, 2013 at at 2045 UTC/3:45 p.m. EST, Arctic air pours over North America during the week before Thanksgiving, bringing several days of unseasonal freezing temperatures and difficult weather to the United States.

Credit: NASA GOES Project/Dennis Chesters

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