Satellite images of snowfall over parts of South Africa

The configuration of the Terra Modis overpass this morning (0805Z on Sun 15th) was good for capturing details of the widespread snow over SA, although some low cloud persists in the south and west. I am not yet sure about the Aqua overpass (available later this afternoon).

In increasing order of coverage area, but decreasing order of resolution (to keep images to a realistic size), are the following subsets:

These are true colour images, in which both clouds and snow appear white. False-colour versions (in which snow and ice appear pale blue) can be obtained by clicking on the 7-2-1 links (these are equivalent to the low-resolution EUMetsat images).

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?area=af

- Gordon Richardson