Amazing Images Of Well Defined Border Between Snow/No Snow After Midwest Storm

Sharp cutoff between snow and no snow over Indiana
after Saturday's narrow snowstorm. Photo via
@reubenlidster on Twitter. https://twitter.com/reubenlidster

As expected, a very narrow band of snow set up across parts of the Midwest on Saturday.

Actually the band of snow extended from North Dakota southeast to Virginia and North Carolina.

The unusual aspect of the storm, aside from the oddity of getting a late March snowstorm in North Carolina, was the narrow strip of snow. It was only perhaps 50 to at most 100 miles wide.

Some places in the snow band got nailed with more than a foot of snow. Indianapolis, Indiana received 10.2 inches of snow, the second snowiest March day in that city's history.

But just a short drive southwest or northeast of these very snowy places on Saturday would bring you to bare or nearly bare ground.

That diagonal streak of what across the center of this
satellite photo taken Sunday is snow cover from an
odd, narrow storm on Saturday. 

The first photo in this post shows an aerial view of Indiana, near Indianapolis. (Click on the photo to make it bigger and easier to see)

You can see the farmfields on the left are covered in snow, while the ones on the right are bare. Some individual farms have what appear to be several inches of snow on one side of the properties with nothing on the other side.

The second photo is a visibile satellie image showing the northwest to southeast snow streak across the middle of the photo. That streak is all snow cover (The white on the lower left hand corner of the satellite photo is cloud clover.

You don't often see snowstorms like this!

It's all melting in most of that region now as warmer air and rain moves in.