File:Blowing snow.gif

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Description	Banded sheets of blowing snow, January 15th 1997. GOES 8 Visible Satellite Imagery.
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Other information	Author: University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:09, 18 February 2017		365 × 274 (72 KB)	Diannaa (talk \| contribs)	reduce size to comply with Wikipedia's non-free content policy
	06:17, 5 November 2006	No thumbnail	800 × 600 (255 KB)	Theonlysilentbob (talk \| contribs)	Author: University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies Source: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/misc/blowing_snow.gif Description: Banded sheets of blowing snow, January 15th 1997