Satellite Image of the Day: December 8
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NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

Satellites: NOAA-15 and NOAA-17, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

Snow on the mountains.

This picture shows snow all along the mountains tops of the Rockies.
  The jet stream coming off of the Rockies can be seen by looking at the clouds in the middle of the picture.
The jet stream comes south east and starts curve back the the north east over the middle of the map.
The clouds in this picture are displayed with the light purple look to them.
The white on the map is snow that has already fallen and the system that left the snow has moved on already.
If you click on the image below a very high resolution image comes up that will show a lot more detail.
The Salt Lake can be seen in the lower left and the Rockies stand out with great detail.
 

Click on the image below for a higher-resolution (167k) version.