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   January 22, 2023 - Snow in the Western United States   
      
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      On January 19, 2023, after weathering several series of winter storms   
      in the past two months, a local Denver, Colorado news company’s   
      headline read, “Say it ain’t snow!”. But it was snow—and plenty of   
   it.   
      From January 17-18, the storm brought white-out conditions to Denver   
      for several hours while 9.1 inches of new snow accumulated at Denver   
      International Airport. That brings this storm to eighth place in   
      Denver’s Top 10 two-day total accumulation for the month of January.   
      
      The best description of the event comes from the National Weather   
      Service (NWS), which wrote, “An area of low pressure developed along   
      the lee of the Rockies in eastern Colorado and tracked northeast across   
      the Great Plains…Plentiful moisture and powerful dynamics of a system   
      more typical of a springtime storm came together to result in a swath   
      of significant snowfall.” The heaviest-hit area was western and north   
      central Nebraska, where the single calendar day snowfall record was   
      broken at North Platte, with a total of 13.9 inches of accumulation at   
      that location. Two feet of snow were also recorded in Custer County,   
      Nebraska.   
      
      On January 19, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a false-color image of   
      the aftermath of the January 17-18 winter storm across the Western   
      United States. In this type of false-color image, snow appears bright   
      blue, open land looks tan, vegetation is electric green, and water   
      looks deep blue. Clouds usually appear white but high, cold clouds that   
      contain ice may have a tint of electric blue. In most locations, the   
      freshly-fallen snow sits atop older accumulations dropped during the   
      earlier winter storms.   
      
      The state of Utah sits in the center of the image, and is marked by the   
      deep blue of the Great Salt Lake. From north and moving clockwise,   
      other states seen in this image—in whole or part—are: Idaho, Montana,   
      Wyoming, southwestern corner of North Dakota, western South Dakota,   
      western Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California,   
      Oregon, and southeastern Washington.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 1/8/2023   
      Resolutions:  1km (630.1 KB),  500m (10.5 MB),  250m (7.1 MB)   
      Bands Used: 7,2,1   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-01-22   
       
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