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Data acquired December 27, 2004 600 x 800 211 KB - JPEG
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A post-Christmas winter storm brought ice and snow to South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, closing Interstate 95, stranding motorists and airline passengers, and knocking out power to more than 20,000 households. This image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on December 27, 2004, shows the aftermath of the storm, a white swath of snow stretching from the southern edge of North Carolina, through Virginia, and across the Chesapeake Bay into Maryland and Delaware. The snow highlights the Great Dismal Swamp, the darker rectangle that straddles the state line between Virginia and North Carolina. In the upper left corner, snow covers the mountainous terrain of West Virginia.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published December 28, 2004 Data acquired December 27, 2004