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A quick-moving system brought snow showers and squalls to the Ohio Valley on January 12, 2016. This satellite image shows many interesting features, including pre-existing snow pack over Illinois and northern Indiana, and new areas of snow from southern Indiana through northern Kentucky.

Winds gusted to 50 mph with some of the squalls in north central Kentucky, with visibility briefly reduced to less than a quarter mile. One to two inches of total snowfall was reported across the area.