Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The image is available in additional resolutions.
A circle of white snow stretches east from the base of the Rocky Mountains after a surprise storm buried parts of Colorado, including Denver, on April 10, 2005.
A surprise storm buried sections of Colorado with as much as 61 centimeters (24 inches) of snow on April 10, 2005. According to the Associated Press, the spring storm cancelled flights and closed a major interstate highway, stranding travelers. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this view of the fresh snow on April 12, 2005. The Rocky Mountains in the center of the state had already been covered with a coat of snow, but the plains to the east are also now white. Denver, the capital of Colorado, forms a dark circle in the snow near the base of the mountains. The city reported 30 cm (12 inches) of snow.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Start Date
2005-04-12 -
Event Start Date
2005-04-10 -
NH Image ID
12820 -
NH Event ID
10647 -
NH Posting Date
2005-04-13
