Residual snow cover from North Carolina to Delaware
GOES-16 True Color RGB mages [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) displayed the areal extent of snow cover across parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware — resulting from a 21-22 January winter storm (NWS Newport/Morehead City NC | NWS Wakefield VA) — that still remained on 24 January 2022.
A Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image along with the corresponding GOES-16 Land Surface Temperature (LST) derived product at 1800 UTC or Noon EDT (below) showed that LST values over deeper snow cover near the Virginia/North Carolina border were held to the upper 30s and low 40s F (shades of blue), in contrast to upper 50s and low 60s F (shades of orange) over bare ground not far to the south and west. The closest reporting station to the coldest LST value of 37ºF was Elizabeth City, NC (where the morning snow depth was 3.0 inches).
Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image and GOES-16 Land Surface Temperature product [click to enlarge]