Winter storm affecting the southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley
GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images, with hourly surface weather type plotted in yellow [click to play animation | MP4]
GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (below) revealed pockets of banded convection, whose glaciated cloud tops appeared as shades of green to yellow.
![GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2021/01/south_rgb-20210110_180116.png)
GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]
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![GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2021/01/south_rgb2-20210111_180116.png)
GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]
A toggle between VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images from Suomi NPP at 1936 UTC (below) provided another example of a RGB variant that is useful for the discrimination of low cloud vs. snow — snow cover appeared as shades of cyan in the False Color image.