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Snow present in 49 of the 50 U.S. states
After big snow and ice events in the Southeast, Plains, and Midwest this week, 49 out of the 50 states currently have snow on the ground - yes, even Hawaii, where snow falls in Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea all winter.
The only state that has avoided this icy blast is Florida. Does that make you want to go on a nice, warm vacation to the Sunshine State? You're not alone.
Put another way, that means snow is present in 69.4 percent of the lower 48, which is more than double than December. This is extremely unusual, though it's hard to put a date on when this last happened because records aren't kept on this kind of event.
The National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center combines ground reports and images from satellites in space to determine how much of the country is covered in snow. That's what you see in the image above. The images tell how deep and widespread the snow is, and that's important not only for images like this one, but also for computer weather models, which use the data to generate accurate forecasts. Such forecasts were very useful in predicting this week's winter storms.
Earlier this week, two storms began to churn: one in the northern Plains and Midwest, and one in Texas. The southern winter storm took a track across the Gulf Coast, pulling warm, moist air over an extreme arctic blast that set up over the eastern half of the United States late last week. This provided fuel for the storm to carve a path of snow, sleet, and freezing rain from Texas to the Carolinas.
Here in Atlanta, we're still coated in snow and ice and probably will be for the next couple of days. No one in the Southeast escaped the wrath except, of course, Florida.
But it's not over. Now that the southern-track storm has moved into the Atlantic and is moving north, the other Midwest storm is going to merge with it, creating a Nor'easter event that could dump up to two feet of snow in the Northeast. Winter storm warnings and advisories have been posted for the event - 32 states have winter storm advisories issued, by the way.
Here's how the snow forecast breaks down for some major cities:
Washington DC: 2-4 inches
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 4-6 inches
New York, N.Y.: 6-12 inches
Hartford, Connecticut: 15-20 inches
Boston, Massachusetts: 12-16 inches
The snow and cold started early this winter and has been extreme for most of the country. Usually the Southeast avoids the blast, but not in 2011. We're all feeling a little "snowed in" this winter.
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@Aaron, you are but so wise... However 30 gigatons compared to 750 gigatons is 4% of the earth's emission. You see when you get a calculator and divide 30 by 750 it comes to 0.04. This is a decimal which you must convert to a percentage, but surely you must have known this.
That's why I live in Florida. Sunny and 50 right now in Tampa. 🙂
Does that include Hawaii?
It specifically says it does in the article.
The "lower 48 states" do not inclue Alaska or Hawaii.
Yes, Hawaii has snow in the mountains. There is no snow in Florida.
No SNOW in Houston !
So much for global warming
hey shelly if u knew anything about gobal warming which it diff sounds like u dont u would understand this is what they call the earths way of correcting itself there is a movie about it in case i am talking to fast for u look it up before u speak next time fool
If you read the whole story you would see that yes even hawaii is getting snow.
It may be snowing in northern Arizona, but Phoenix is 70, sunny and beautiful. Who needs Florida and humidity.
This is Al Gore's global warming. Looks like we're gonna melt tomorrow.
Yes, that's what the article stated.
d-ooooohhh!!!!
Checking in from sunny Florida!!!
Who needs FL?
Heading further south to the USVI!!!!
Wow this seems a bit like "Day After Tomorrow" after Global Warming. Of course the movie is just that a movie, however, the snow falling all over the country, well that sounds like Global Warming and it is a reality. Hope it doesn't end the same way but you just never can tell cause people won't listen, our politics are too busy fighting and the everyday populace is just to busy scurrying around with their daily lives to even pay attention. Will we be caught off guard? No, we will just be caught.
who needs FLORIDA! I'll show you who needs florida. EVERYONE! IF YOU DONT WANT TO FREEZE TO DEATH FLORIDA IS THE 4TH MOST POPULATED STATE IN THE U.S BECAUSE WE ARE SMART ANDDONT WANT TO FREEZE. OVER HERE ITS TROPICAL AND IT MAY REACH THE 100S BUT ITS WORTH IT. ID RATHER GO TO THE BEATIFUL BEACH IN THE COUNTRY INTEAD OF FREEZING. FLORIDA IS TROPICAL AND AWSOME. TEMPS GO TO 100SAS HIGHEST BUT LOWEST I BY THE 20S. SO YAY THAT SHOWS YOU "WHO NEED FLORIDA" EVERYONE
Yes, it sounds exactly like The Day After Tomorrow, the only movie that can have a worldwide negative 100 degree weather because of Global Warming.
Ask yourselves this question... Al Gore has said we are in danger of killing all life off of the earth. He has actually said this. IF we don't curb and reduce our CO2 emissions. Now, if you thought that your carbon footprint was actually KILLING THE PLANET, would you not reduce your own carbon footprint? I know I would. But does Al Gore? Nope. His carbon footprint is about 10 times the normal household.
Why would he not reduce that if he thought it was killing the planet? If I believed what he believed, I'd be living in a mud hut and begging everyone else to do that same. But, not Al. He keeps flying around in jets powered by fossil fuels.
Maybe he needs to live the life he is trying to make everyone else live.
The last I checked, 47 states (with snow) out of 48 (contiguous) states equals 98%, not 69.4%. It would be a bit higher if one counted 49 out of 50...
@Scott Read the 1st sentence again.
Does it look like a new Ice age coming up to you ? The way the weather patterns have been the last ten years I feel we might be entering the beginning of a new ice age.
Yes, it does. Hawaii has had snow. Florida is the only one that didn't get snow..
@shelly-this doesn't prove that there is no global warming genius. It does prove there is climate change....
Hate to let you in on this buddy but anyway- Houston is not a state!!!
Shelly, actually, global warming doesn't actually ONLY cause flooding and warmer than typical weather. Yes, snow /& harsher winter weather are equalled in. And, "a Gallup poll found that 66% of all scientists agree that global warming has occurred, 10% disagree, and the rest are undecided." Quit trolling, and do yourself and everyone else a favor by researching more. I mean, you have time to read the comment section of cnn, therefor you should have time to look up scientific studies, numbers, and debates. Now, it is up to you to decide what you personally believe, but to simply put up a poorly researched comment is, well, stupid, and reflects poorly on you.
So, for starters, here is an article from Skeptical Science that talks about exactly what you yourself suggested-That colder winters must thrash the global warming theory altogether.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=516
Please excuse my typing errors and overuse of the word "actually." If there was an edit button, I'd fix them.
Will, that seems a little silly now, doesn't it? "Hmm, a big rock is going to fall from the sky at some point, so what the heck Let's just not give a crap and trash it while we're still here/speed up the process." Common sense and self-preservation be damned, right? Sure, it is absolutely possible that it could happen at any point in time. But that's like not maintaining your vehicle, since, you know, it's not going to last you a lifetime anyway, but worse, as other people will be also pay the price.
Don't worry folks, The UN just declared this year the hottest EVER! So I'm sure all that snow you are shoveling is just another clever lie perpatrated by the evil right wingers at fox news. Because we all know if it gets warmer, or colder, snows more, or less...its Global Warming...its science people, come on.
Here is El Paso, we have had only two days of rain since September. Yes we do get rain a lot more than present. The good thing is that everyone around us is getting that much needed moisture.
This is not a big surprise for Hawaiians, they always get snow in the higher elevations.
Ha! Hampton Roads, Virginia = cold but snow free... We may not get as lucky every time but prob most times... God I love living on the coast!
nice d-bait!! like most Americans , no intelligence is shown-get a job.
I live on the Big Island of Hawaii. We have two mountains over 13,000 feet here on the Big Island. Most people who visit Hawaii dont know this. There was snow this morning on the top of the highest, Mauna Kea – but not very much. Mauna Kea is almost 14,000 feet high – very close to the height of Mount Rainier in WA or Mt Whitney in CA. Much of the winter, we dont have snow up there, but with new storm systems, we get a few inches on the peaks... Down at the beach though, it is 80+ degrees so dont worry about your vacation time. I would say, come and visit...Go to the snow in the morning and then come down to the beach in the afternoon...Its kind of cool that we can do that here.
And just a quick addition... When they say that 69.4% of the contiguous US has snow on the ground, I dont think they mean that all states but Florida represent 69.4% of the states. I think what they meant was that 69.4% of the landmass is covered with snow (ignoring state boundaries). From looking at the map, this seems to be the case. Just my two cents.
so much for global warming?
Global warming is a bunch of BS. We've had our coldest winter, coldest summer, coldest spring, coldest fall on record in San Diego. If I ever see Al Gore, I'm going to smack him.
Global warming predicts extreme temperatures – summers get hotter and winters get colder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-F8EO3qOVk
Jen, if the winters get colder by the same amount as the summers get warmer, then how's that global warming?
"Warming" is a misnomer. What happens is that weather becomes more extreme–hotter summers, colder winters, more powerful hurricanes, more flooding, etc.
I wish you were kidding James...but I'm sure you are just that idiotic. Please see the link...http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/12/noaa-2010-ties-2005-as-warmest-year-on-record/
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/12/noaa-2010-ties-2005-as-warmest-year-on-record
Please – "on record" means the last 150 years. The planet is 4billion Y.O. and enviro whackos are making the leap to doom-n-gloom on a few year's records. One thing is for certain: all the polluting, all the enviro protection won't mean a hill of beans when the next rock drops from the sky...and this WILL happen
global cooling now.
there is a global warming trend, but it's not caused by humans. check out spaceweather.com.
And I was so looking forward to cane sugar in Colorado and corn in Canada. Would have gone along way to help with world hunger. Pity.
Global warming is a misnomer. It doesn't mean we will have warm, green winters but the weather patterns are changing due to the buildup of carbon dioxide, therefore the jet stream changes. It could be cyclical but could also be due to global warming.
Idiot. Climate change means unpredictable, sometimes drastic weather. Global warming is an over simplification of what is really happening. Some times it’s best to be quiet.
guys, don't feed the trolls,
and if they aren't trolls..... well I might cry.
The idea of "global warming" (climate change is more accurate) is quite funny in itself. Everything in the Universe is always constantly changing. Our Sun is continuously changing every fraction of a fraction of a second, and the same goes for Earth. It's like people thought that weather and the environment were set in stone, and if "unusual" weather started to occur then it's the end of the world. Please. Get a grip people, we live in an ever-changing universe, and Earth is no exception. Humans may be a factor for whats going on, but we're leaps and bounds away from being the primary source of these unusual events.
lol global warming is GLOBAL not local look at the record high tempertures in russia last summer i think its more of a shifting of poles though but winter here is hopefully going back to way they were when i was younger as to a lot of creeks seem to be drying up in mountains of nc including the new river.
I am sick and tired everytime it's colder than usual, some idiot makes the stupid "so much for global warming" comment. The only current day to day effect we will see due to global warming is more unpredictable, unusual and harsher weather, cold or hot which we are starting to witness. Global warming is about thresholds. As average temperatures in regions that are traditionally frozen cause new, permannent melt, the oceans will rise and the weather patterns will start to change. The only major effect we probably will see in the near future is increased flooding of coastal cities. The hotbox won't occur for hundereds if not thousands of years. The problem is we will be the ones blamed for destroying the planet. But most people don't care about a future that far out, or want to deny that we are actually doing it, so they make asinine statements. Kinda sound like the parents of the shooter who say, "Well I would have never suspected my child" yet the signs are all around.
So much for Global Warming
Whatever you want to call it... the people are in trouble. Increasing population, raising sea levels, decrease in water supply, increase in extreme weather. These are facts, not opinions. And it's getting worse and worse each year. I really don't think there is much we can do about. All I have to say is that if it's a battle between the environment and us, we have no chance.
It was called Global Warming until the planet started cooling. Then they changed it to Global Climate Change. And when the vast amount of emails came out that a lot of this was ginned up off of faulty data and they knew about it all along, then they would have to be foolish not to realize people would start making fun of it.
I love it when the climate change believers say,"climate change means unpredictable, sometimes drastic weather". By rule, weather is unpredictable and drastic. The best trick they have ever pulled is to convince people that changing weather patterns and extreme weather is abnormal. I laugh at you.
@ Jen- most people used to call hot summers and cold winters "seasons". With the dogmatic religion of global warming, no matter what the weather does cold hot warm cool, rain, dry,whatever...it's man-caused global warming to blame and for the true believers there is no way to disprove it.
Only if you don't understand how to compare average temperatures each year.
Global Warming...
I'm so sick of ignorant rednecks. It's about climate change (more extremes of hot and cold) not global warming. Overall, (like over a century) it will be on average warmer...but only a few degrees.
Even weather reports devolve into a right wing v the rest verbal abuse session. America for heaven's sake stop this!
Amen, Mike.
Amen!
although we currently have snow in 49 of 50 states some posters last night were claiming this isn't really that rare they claim we had snow in 50 out of 50 states just last winter and i remember being cold here in NC i don't remember snow being in 50 states ... does anybody really remember that and it seems like it would have been a media event how did i mss it
at the same time, not all winter.
You're right. Who's the idiot that wrote this story? See: http://www.gadling.com/2010/02/13/snow-in-all-50-u-s-states/
Thanks James!
I thought this article seemed Very-Very familiar. . .
YES- there was snow in all 50 at the same time last winter. It happened around the first part of February.
This "map" is missing all the crosshairs. How else is Mother Nature supposed to know what Congressional districts to annihilate with her winter fury?? Oh, I get it... Nature knows they ALL suck! That's why 49 out of 50 states are hit. But why not Florida?? Maybe that's because Florida will be mostly under water soon anyway from global warming, massive hurricanes, and old Republicans. Nice to see that when it comes to annihiation, Mother Nature doesn't take sides.
SOUTHERN STYLE... sshhhhhh
Seriously though – does this type of weather further cement that fact that weather patterns are cyclical and there has been a gross over exaggeration of "global warming?"
Well in the whole global warming theory stuff, it basically states that it will become so hot that it will become cold. Its some very lengthy process that requires certain things to happen, like more clouds that cause the sun to be blocked out or something like that. Course the way they look at it for controlling people is they look at a very long and incomplete set of equations.. If anyone ever took algebra, it is called a simultaneous equation.
Now, because we don't know every single variable that goes into weather, we are forced to ignore hundreds of thousands of variables that make up weather. Like the chaos theory of a butterfly flapping its wings in china causing tornadoes in Kansas. No one truthfully knows what would cause weather to happen. But one thing is for sure, Mother nature always seeks balance, and she cannot be controlled by any man.
I mean if the Global warming theory is correct and Man is causing extreme changes in climate and its not because earth has always had fluctuations of it being hot and then it being cold, then hot again. (Ice ages and not Ice age periods) Then this theory pretty much has to state that it is possible to make a weather machine that could control weather with a push of a button.
Well, the whole global warming stuff is simply based on measuring temperatures all over the world, averaging them out, and comparing them year and year to see what direction they're going and how fast. What's happening is right there for anyone that's actually interested in the answer.
Global warming is more about getting extreme weather, then climate getting warmer. The winters would get colder and the summers would get hotter with wide discrepancies all over the world. Overall the temperature is raising and once the ice in the poles start to melt in a faster rate, the weather patterns will get more extreme.
ITS THE MAYANS!!!! THEY WERE RIGHT!!!!!
that made me giggle 🙂
congratulations
I bet Al Gore is kicking himself for calling it "Global Warming" rather than "Drastic Changes in Global Climates".
They were misinformed, Tallahassee had snow last week. A video was posted on Youtube. It melted when it hit the ground, but we still had snow...
Pensacola had snow also, did not stick but it did fall
Well then that wouldn't be 'present' now would it? Article is talking about snow on the ground at the moment.
Westley: since this blog sees fit not to allow replies I have to congratulate you as an entry. Congratulations! Not that it will make a dent in the discussion but just seeing a post with researchable facts instead of wild-eyed speculation is, in this atmosphere, a rare treat! Those who, for purely political "idealogical" reasons deny what is happening all around them do so at their peril and ours. But we'll keep chipping away at the stupidity; the truth will out - or will it?
I sure wish your reporters would go back to school and take some math courses. If only 1 state of the lower 48 does not have snow, Florida, as the story states then the ratio of states that have snow would be 97.91667% not 69.4% as the idiot reporter stated.The percentage of 69.4 would reflect that 33.312 states would not have snow! To help the reporter learn his percentages, divide 47 by 48 on your calculator and this will give you the correct percentage of states that have snow. Please get it right and reinforce our education system that tries to teach our children!
lower 48 doesnot mean all 48. your math and reading are still wrong
I interpreted the comment to mean that 69.4% of the _ground_ in the lower 48 was snow covered.
Actually, You need to learn to read. They are talking about al 50 states not the lower 48. Therefore their math is correct.
and I guess I need to learn to type. al=all
69.4% of the total land area of the 48 states, not 69.4% of states. Obviously not every state with snow was 100% covered in snow.
You should really take a reading comprehension class before calling people idiots. The percentage is the percentage of land (i.e., square miles) in the lower 48 states that is supposedly covered by snow, not the percentage of states with at least some snow. Also, the article clearly says that 49 of 50 states have at least some snow cover, not 47 of 48. The number is for all 50 states, the percentage is just for the lower 48.
I see your point but I think what they did was use the snow covered areas divided by the total area. Since some of the states have snow but not the whole state it looks like roughly 70% coverage to me. Just a guess.
Please sign me up for the John Gault reading comprehension course too, because the words "snow is present in 69.4 percent of the lower 48" don’t appear as “square miles” to me either; but I read left to right.
You're right about the percent of states but I think the article is talking about the percent of land area. See how Texas is mostly without snow but it still has some?
Here is MY OPINION.... JUST AN OPINION..so dont bash on me..because i do respect everybodys opinions about this crazy weather..did anyone ever stop and think that all this drastic climate change has been happening..forever before we even existed.. the reason why the MEDIA is constantly making a big deal out of it... is because now a days technology is way more advanced and they are able to track all this weather going on everywhere..back then obviously technology was not nearly as good as it is now...so stop sweating it.!!! for those who believe in 2012 or that the end is near..get over it!!.. all this weather change is due to the polar shifting...its already happening and its been happening...it all doesnt happen in one day! ohh and just for more insight on some weather stuff... look up HAARP... pretty interesting...how people can actually manipulate weather..just a thought.... thanks!
Christina, please go tell it to people of Bangladesh and alike whose lands are close to sea level and how they're suffering in recent years. More and more land is going under water each year.
Let's say for a minute that your opinion is right? Should that mean that we still shouldn't try to reduce our carbon emissions since we know for a fact that it has a negative effect on the climate among other things (health, environment, etc)?
About Bangladesh: the Indian "continent" is really sinking under Asia, but this is a geological process, weater con not influence it.
The climate changes are cyclic in some degree. But global cooling (a lot of snow and ice on the planet and "cycling" with ice ages) is rather recent, in some millions or a few tens tens of years
I am adding about CO2. It is a gas of life. Life is dying, when its concentration decreases. If it will increase by a factor of few from the present level – this will be good for Earth life (less deserts, more forests and grasses, including rice, wheat and corn)
This does not mean we should not try to use wisely non-renewable concentrated deposits of carbon and hydrocarbons.
the water isnt rising it is going back to where it used to be years and year and years etc ago humans and machine pushed back the water for more land mass but u can only do that for sooo long I agree with CHRISTINA!!! sorry to say BANGLADESHI but the water WAS there first!