NASA Wallops Studying East Coast Snowfall Using Airplanes

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – NASA scientists are about to embark on a new journey, flying a plane right into the center of a storm to better understand snowfall on the East Coast. “NASA has not done, actually scientists have not done, experiments looking at the details of those storms for 30 years,” says Gail Skofronick-Jackson, a program scientists for NASA’s IMPACTS Mission. Scientists are sharing details about NASA’s new field campaign “Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms”, also known as IMPACTS. Experts say there’s already a lot of data on rain but not enough on winter weather. So they’re using planes to gain some more insight.