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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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So much for global warming !
Snow be it!
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Ah global warming where are you know?
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW IF WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BAD WINTER OR A MILD ONE. JUST LOOK AT THE BERRY BUSHES OR TREE'S AND NUT TREE'S.
IF WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A HARD WINTER THERE WILL BE MANY NUT'S OR BERRY'S ON THEM. IF IT IS GOING TO BE MILD, THERE WON'T BE THAT MUCH ON THEM. DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT JUST CHECK FOR YOUR SELF.
if you don't like the weather just wait a day or two it will change, just like it has forever.
i really don't see much difference in the weather . some time we have colder weather than usual and some time we have warmer weather than usual. so what? there is nothing you can do about it but stay as warm as you can in the winter , and as cool as you need to in the summer.
people that think they can do something about it , is just selling you a "pig in a poke" . some one has found a way to build something and are trying to make every one buy in to it. just like the electric car.
how many of you can pay your electricity bill now? it is just another bad idea. i hope they let it go the way of the edsel. does any one remember it.
I don't care how much snow is out there as long as the pens and steelers kick a**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It looks like a mini ice age! How could Al Gore make a justification of his global warming politics for his greed? Politicians are awful people on the earth because they often deceit on people's minds and greed for themselves.
Dear CNN, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are MOUNTAINS, not towns. Snow falls ON them, not IN them. Thanks.
they talk about global warming. it is probably because they don't want you to know about all the A-Bombs they have set off under the earth. that is probably what is causing all the warming. that mass of power has to go some where.
it is coming up under the ocean's and sea's in the form of small volcanoe's which are extreamly poisioness.
if a bubble comes up under a boat and pops every one on the boat die's. no one told you about that did they?
Well said TYLER Global warming is real !! 99 % of Climatic Scientist now have consensus to that effect.
Wake up stupid conservative republican morons. YOU are in your last days . I Hope.
The rest of us non conservatives will go on and pick up the pieces to repair our mother earth.
OH MY GOD , WE ARE FIGHTING THE CIVIL WAR ALL OVER AGAIN . ONLY IT IS THE BATTLE OF MORON'S.
YOU ARE SHOWING YOUR AGE KID'S . HOWEVER IF YOU ARE HAVING FUN JUST GO AHEAD AND PLAY AT BEING ALL GROWN UP.
how did I know as soon as I saw this neat article on yahoo news that most of the comments would be "so much for global warming." I wish people would at least try to understand what the global warming is. It is a basic trend of warming that has been occurring over the last 50 or so years due to the effects of humans and or carbon emissions. Because of this, the effects are more extremes of everything. It certainly doesn't mean that we can't have a colder winter. But generally, the temperature is going up and the extremes are happening (more hurricanes, more el nino, more big storms, more heat waves, more blizzards, etc). If we ignore all of the data over the last 50 years but still understand what our carbon footprint is, why is it so bad to try to reduce our pollution and output of harmful gases? I just don't get the people that want to dismiss it as trash every time it snows or it gets cold and says oh well lets go drill for more oil.
Auburn sucks. Your coach is a tool. You'll lose that trophy eventually. Go Cyclones!
how did I know as soon as I saw this neat article on yahoo news that most of the comments would be "so much for global warming." I wish people would at least try to understand what the global warming is. It is a basic trend of warming that has been occurring over the last 50 or so years due to the effects of humans and or carbon emissions. Because of this, the effects are more extremes of everything. It certainly doesn't mean that we can't have a colder winter. But generally, the temperature is going up and the extremes are happening (more hurricanes, more el nino, more big storms, more heat waves, more blizzards, etc). If we ignore all of the data over the last 50 years but still understand what our carbon footprint is, why is it so bad to try to reduce our pollution and output of harmful gases? I just don't get the people that want to dismiss it as trash every time it snows or it gets cold and says oh well lets go drill for more oil.
Good, informed post.
That was a well thought out, well informed, and very reasonable post. You have no business being on the internet.