April 5, 2016
Spring arrived in the United States weeks ago, but that did not stop a winter storm from dumping several inches of snow across much of the Upper Midwest and the Northeast in early April. On April 5, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured this image of the snow dropped by the storm. A fast-moving Alberta clipper produced the snowfall.
References & Resources
- AccuWeather (2016, April 4) Clipper storm to sweep northeastern US with accumulating snow Monday. Accessed April 6, 2016.
- The Boston Globe (2016, April 3) Mass. slammed by April snowstorm. Accessed April 6, 2016.
- USA Today (2016, April 4) Spring snow belts Great Lakes, Northeast. Accessed April 6, 2016.
NASA images by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.
