![\"GOES-16](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/01\/210110_210111_goes16_waterVapor_surfaceWeather_NM_TX_LA_MS_winter_storm_anim.gif\")
<\/a>GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly surface weather 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 widespread precipitation that was developing across the southern High Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on 10 January 2021<\/strong><\/a>. A closed middle-tropospheric low was providing forcing for ascent as it moved eastward across the region — and its cyclonic circulation was evident in the Water Vapor imagery. Storm total snowfall accumulations were as high as 11 inches in Texas, 8 inches in New Mexico, 6.5 inches in Louisiana and 4.5 inches in Mississippi.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed pockets of banded convection, whose glaciated cloud tops appeared as shades of green to yellow.<\/p>\n GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n ===== 11 January Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB and Day Snow-Fog RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>On the following day, gaps in low-level cloud cover allowed the areal extent of resulting snow cover to be seen in GOES-16 Day Cloud Phase Distinction\u00a0(snow = brighter shades of green)<\/em> and Day Snow-Fog (snow = darker shades of red)<\/em> RGB images (above)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n A toggle between VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images from Suomi NPP at 1936 UTC (below)<\/strong> <\/em>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.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>