At a Glance

These images are making meteorologists and weather geeks salivate.The storm rapidly intensified Wednesday into Thursday.

Winter Storm Grayson's extreme intensity has produced weather imagery that's stunning to meteorologists.

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Grayson is a textbook example of whatanexplosivenor'easter looks like from space.

Here are some of the best views of the storm we've seen so far.

This first image is a visible satellite shot of Grayson on Thursday morning that shows its swirling low-pressure center standing out prominently over the western Atlantic Ocean. Visible satellite imagery shows how the storm would generally look if viewed by the naked eye from space.

Swirling inside that low-pressure center were several smaller-scale vortices as shown in this animation (click the play button).

Infrared satellite also presented a beautiful view of Grayson. The red and orange shadings depict higher cloud tops which are often associated with precipitation.

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This water vapor animation shows how Grayson exploded into a classic nor'easter late Wednesday into early Thursday. The purple shading represents higher moisture content in the atmosphere while the orange is drier air punching in behind the storm.

Finally, click the play button to see Grayson in high detail as the sun rose in the eastern states Thursday morning.

Photos: Winter Storm Grayson

A woman passes an ice-covered fountain in New York's Bryant Park, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Frigid temperatures, some that could feel as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region attempted to clean up from Winter Storm Grayson. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)