Snow stretches from the English Channel north under a bank of clouds near the Scottish border in this photo-like image of England, taken on February 4, 2009.
This pair of maps shows average percent snow cover in December 2008 and February 2009, the first and last months of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
For the first time since 1918, snow fell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, late on July 9, 2007. The snow was still there the next morning when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flew over on NASA’s Terra satellite at 10:55 a.m. local time.
Acquired November 13, 2009, these true- and false-color images show part of northeastern China shortly after a severe snowstorm. In the false-color image, snow appears orange-red, and clouds range in color from pale peach to white.