Since there is snow on the highest elevations of the Rockies, it’s interesting to see how CI handles that. I occasionally was seeing pink showing up and found that, indeed, CI tries to figure out snow contamination. It catches small parts of the snowcover, but doesn’t stay on them for particularly long periods (at least as of 1845z). I suspect the spatial resolution of the CI model plays a role in that.

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Jason Williams