16K views · 66 reactions | NOAA satellites are keeping vigilant watch over the nation's winter weather today. This view, via GOES East (GOES-16), shows a large weather system over the central United States, where Winter Storm Warnings and Extreme Cold Warnings are in effect. Latest updates and advisories: www.weather.gov | NOAA Satellite and Information Service | Facebook

National Weather Service forecasters have called for a wintry mix of snow, sleet, and rain/freezing rain over parts of New England; the possibility of snow in an area stretching from the Northern/Central Plains to parts of the Mississippi Valley; and heavy rain over parts of southern New England and the northern Mid-Atlantic Coast today, January 24, 2017. The weather systems that will deliver this precipitation, as well as the one that brought heavy rain to California on January 22 and 23, can b