50% of the Lower 48 States, Covered in Snow This Early in More than a Decade!

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Snow coverage this early in the year since more than a decade...http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...y-in-more-than-a-decade/?tid=trending_strip_5

The entire states of South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma were coated in snow as of Monday morning. Few areas of the central U.S. managed to escape the wintry onslaught, and the accumulation across the country has been widespread over the past week, from Oregon to Maine, and south into Texas.
This week’s snow extent is the most we’ve seen (by a long shot) in the first half of November since 2003, when the National Snow Analysis archive begins. Only 2012 comes as close to this year’s 50.4 percent coverage — on Nov. 12, 2012, 31.5 percent of the lower 48 was covered in snow.
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I like all the four seasons, including winter when we get snow. The first snowfalls are magical, I love walking outdoors and enjoying them. Here's our boy one winter past in our back yard.

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Well, maybe those who dream of a white Christmas will have one. I know that it will be summer in OZ but I am asking Santa to see what he can do. Maybe he can load his sleigh with North Pole snow and fly over and dump it on OZ...
 
Ina said:
Do you get snow in the land of Oz? :dunno:
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Some, but not much. Our mountains are not very high because ours is a very old continent that has been eroded for a very long time. Because we sit in the centre of a tectonic plate we don't have any mountain building going on so from one side to the other the landscape is pretty flat.

Only the highest mountains in the south east get regular Winter snow and the most southern latitudes e.g. some parts of Tasmania.
 
Ontari_ari_ario..

We live in Ontario Canada about 25 miles from Buffalo. They have 5-6 feet, we have about 5-6 " and it's sunny. Of course where we are we're south of many USA states and south of parts of many more. Niagara Region.

That's why it's called 'Southern Ontario', 'the Fruit Belt', and 'The Golden Horse shoe..:p
 
The Mayor of Buffalo is my kind of guy.

6 ft already fallen, 3ft more forecast and there's no blaming the government, the scientists, global warming. No screaming for aid and predicting Armageddon.

He says "This is s historical event"!

Good on you Mr Mayor. We could all do with more like you.
 
I miss peeing in the snow when I lived in New England,my friends played tic-tac-toe on it.
But I loved building square blocks.
Then that damn sun would come out and melt it all away.....:D
 

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