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<\/a>GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly precipitation type plotted in yellow [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a cutoff low that was moving slowly eastward across eastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma\/Texas Panhandle on 28 November<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0– 29 November 2020<\/strong><\/a>. This system was helping to produce rain and snow across parts of that region — and some elongated convective elements were evident across the OK\/TX Panhandles. Snowfall totals<\/strong><\/a> included 2.5 inches in New Mexico and 3.0 inches in Texas, with 4.8 inches at Felt, Oklahoma (NOHRSC<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n On the following day, a few north-to-south oriented mesoscale bands of snow cover were evident on GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em>. Since snow is a strong absorber of radiation at the 1.61 \u00b5m wavelength, it appeared as darker shades of black on those images. Swaths of lighter snow cover melted rather quickly during the day.<\/p>\n