Re: Cold-front, upper-trough and more snow 5-9 Aug 2012

This afternoon's Aqua Modis overpass (Wed 8th) shows the massive amounts of widespread and thick snow on and around the Drakensberg and Lesotho: rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subs...rg.2012221.aqua.500m

I was so surprised that I checked the false-colour image, to confirm that this is really snow (pale blue), now just low cloud (white). rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subs...012221.aqua.721.500m

Edit: I used an image editor to extract the colour cyan (negative red), giving this view of the snow, with lingering low clouds masked out (grey).

Images: lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov + Google Earth.  Edited by Jboyx989

Compiled by Gordon Richardson (Stormchasing SA)