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Every state in the lower 48 has snow on the ground!
This amazing image is one you don’t see very often. An image which displays snow on the ground in ALL 48 continental states. Alaska obviously has snow on the ground too so 49 out of 50 states have seen snow on the ground at the same point in time. I have yet to hear true confirmation that Hawaii does not have snow on any of it’s 12,000 ft peaks. I’ve heard conflicting reports that there is and also that there is not…
Source: http://icecap.us/images/uploads/snow_depth_2010021305_National.jpg
SATURDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: According to Tim Barry, a National Weather Service Meteorologist in Tallahassee said that around Tallahassee itself, trace amounts were reported whilst an impressive 2 inches accummulated in Santa Rosa County and about 1 inch in Defuniak County, both on the Florida panhandle! More info coming soon!
FRIDAY EVENING UPDATE: Reports are coming in that snow is falling and hard on the Florida panhandle and some places are reporting accummulations!! VERY RARE… Also as you’d imagine if it’s snowing in Florida, it’s also snowing across extreme southern Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia. The rest of today and tonight will see some more amazing things. Could we see unprecidented snow amounts in the most unusual places?? 1-3 inch amounts in extreme southern MS, AL and FLA???
An earlier Precip forecast from the Weather Channel. Not the Florida panhandle!
This is an image from an AccuWeather facebook fan taken in Crestview, Florida. No accummulation but first significant snowfall since 1993!
Link http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/photo.php?pid=5364855&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=71781612888&aid=-1&id=518936216
EVERY US STATE COVERED IN SNOW?
A few people have brought to my attention the prospect that if somewhere in Florida recieves even the slightest covering of snow from this storm system, then ALL 50 STATES will have snowcover at one time! Something never recorded in history but apparently the Weather Channel’s Tim Ballisty has blogged that Hawaii’s peaks do not have snow on them and therefore 49 states would have snow, however even 49 states in quite remarkable and every state in the lower 48, well, quite amazing I think……
Plenty cut off from the world, even in the modern big cities
There are many communities around the big cities which have several feet of snow burying their cars and streets and until plows can get to them, then many many people cannot get out. I’m sure there are folks in rural Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey that are stuck in homes, many of which may be powerless after two massive snowstorms. I have seen countless photos of places buried underneath 2-3 feet of snow and drifting that piles two-floors high. Snowbanks AFTER plows have been probably block your view of across the street id imagine. It must be like a different world to what millions are used to. It would be like living high in the mountains with all that suffocating snow surrounding their homes or like living in the Arctic with icy winds blowing their deep snow around…
Dallas just 1 inch away from same amount this season in Toronto!
Amazingly, Dallas, Texas after their record 11+ inch snowstorm, they have found themselves just one inch below Toronto for seasonal snowfall…
Old Man Winter roams in the three Romes!
It is snowing today in Rome, New York, Rome Georgia and Rome, Italy!
From AccuWeather.com
The following is a list of snowfall totals as of Friday morning:
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas: 11.2 inches
Runway Bay, Texas (7 mi. NE): 12.0 inches
Keller, Texas: 13.8 inches
Haslet, Texas: 14.4 inches
Plano, Texas: 8.5 inches
Weatherford, Texas: 12.4 inches
Royse City, Texas: 12.0 inches
Fort Worth, Texas: 12.0 inches
Lindale, Texas: 10.0 inches
Shreveport, La.: 4.3 inches
Jena, La.: 6.0 inches
Natchitoches, La.: 6.0 inches
Shongaloo, La. (5 mi. N): 6.0 inches
Jackson, Miss. (4 mi. WSW): 4.4 inches
De Kalb, Miss.: 8.0 inches
Idabel, Okla. (8 mi. SE): 7.5 inches
Natchez, Miss.: 6.0 inches
Vicksburg, Miss.: 6.3 inches
Story by AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Heather Buchman
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
>Still no forecast for the Winter Olympics?
I guess for curling, ice hockey and skating are indoor but what about the skiers?
Dougie V. Pond, BBC