Massive Snowstorm Seen From Space: BIG PIC
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Dec. 22, 2009 -- What does almost two feet of snow covering several hundred miles look like from space? Well, this: a giant mass of white.
The mid-Atlantic region continues to dig out from the massive snowstorm that dumped between 12 to 30 inches of snow on December 19, 2009, according to reports from the National Weather Service. The storm even broke records in some areas for the most snow to fall in a single December day.
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this view of the storm's aftermath -- stretching from the ridges of the Appalachian Mountains, over to the Chesapeake Bay and the Delmarva Peninsula -- as the system moved out of the region early morning on December 20.
See the National Weather Service's snowfall totals broken down by individual cities here.
Sources: NASA/National Weather Service
Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/MODIS Rapid Response team
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