Mesoscale streaks of snow cover across Iowa and Missouri
A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data with the corresponding false-color “snow-vs-cloud discrimination” Red/Green/Blue (RGB) product (above) revealed numerous northwest-to-southeast oriented mesoscale bands of snow on the ground (varying shades of red on the RGB image) across much of Iowa extending into northern... Read More