Although snow on the ground is uncommon in low elevation Africa, it can still be challenging to distinguish it from low clouds. You can do several things to differentiate snow on the ground from low clouds:
In the visible imagery below, there is snow in Lesotho, but it is impossible to detect without further investigation. Compare the visible to the natural colour RGB to find it below.
In mountainous regions, like the Atlas Mountains outlined in yellow, snow often has a dendritic (branched) pattern like that shown below. Clouds rarely look like this—only when they’re heavily influenced by topographic features.
