What's missing in the new Blue Marble

Jeff Masters, meteorologist at Weather Underground:

The U.S. and Canada are virtually snow-free and cloud-free, which is extremely rare for a January day. The lack of snow in the mountains of the Western U.S. is particularly unusual. I doubt one could find a January day this cloud-free with so little snow on the ground throughout the entire satellite record, going back to the early 1960s.

Via Bill McKibben.

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