The cities of Chicago and Los Angeles were in rare form after winter storms passed through in recent days.
Michelle Cardon shares a slideshow of the snow-capped San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains in Southern California. Los Angeles doesn't often get this kind of winter backdrop, but four consecutive cold days of rain will change that.
The image shown above is Copernicus Sentinel data processed by Pierre Markus and shared to creative commons on Flickr.
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