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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Original Feb 2011 storm moves across the U.S. - Animation made with images from the NOAA-NASA GOES 13 satellite showing a giant storm developing and moving across the U.S. The animation shows clouds building over New Mexico and Texas early in the day. As the system develops and moves north-east, the storm grows and becomes more organized. By the end of February 1, 2011, the storm was a sprawling comma that extended from the Midwest to New England. Description from nasa.gov

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)[reply]
Support presuming that there's nothing higher-res available, in which case that's preferred. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:17, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 13:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 01:59, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- If anyone would like to add that last support I would be grateful, because I'd rather this not fail to pass by 1 !vote again. Seriously, 1 !vote is all we need. Please consider supporting. Please. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:47, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:40, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:40, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]