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<\/a>GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m, left) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, right) images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>The combination of lift from an upper-level trough<\/strong><\/a> and cold air behind the passage of a surface cold front<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 set the stage for accumulating snow across far southern Texas on 08 December 2017<\/strong><\/a>. As the clouds cleared, GOES-13 (GOES-East)<\/em> Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a narrow swath of snow cover running northeastward from the Rio Grande River toward Corpus Christi — the highest snowfall total associated with this feature was 7.0 inches near Corpus Christi. Daily snowfall records included 0.3 inch at Brownsville and 1.0 inch at Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n A toggle between Terra MODIS true-color and false-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the southwestern portion of this band of snow cover (which appeared as darker shades of cyan in the false-color image)<\/em>.<\/p>\n Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color and false-color RGB images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Farther to the north, another southwest-to-northeast oriented band of snow cover was seen on Terra MODIS true-color and false-color RGB images (below),<\/strong><\/em> stretching from San Antonio to Austin to College Station. The highest snowfall total there was 5.0 inches (NWS Austin\/San Antonio summary<\/strong><\/a>),<\/p>\n<\/a>