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Beautiful MODIS/TERRA image of snow cover over the Pacific Northwest

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This is a beautiful MODIS image from the NASA TERRA satellite of snow cover over the Pacific Northwest.

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You can see the snow shadow in the central Puget Sound butif you look carefully you can see the effect of bands of snow precip. The Kitsap Peninsula missed out too. But some bits of Bainbridge's east coast got some intense snow. And Vashon got a fair amount too.

The intense band of snow across Victoria, Jefferson County coast (Sequim and Port Townsend), the San Juans, northern Whidbey, Camano and the Skagit Delta.

The Frasier River delta and Vancouver, BC stands out as snow free too. The cold air was blowing out of there and snow precipitated out before reaching that area.

You can find higher resolution images in the TERRA/AQUA archive:

1km pixels: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA1.2011056.terra.1km

250m pixels: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA1.2011056.terra.250m

If you are having problems orientating yourself on the image above take a look at this one with coastlines and political borders overlaid.

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