© NOAAThis image shows snow covering nearly half of the U.S. and most of Canada on March 26, 2013.
That's the largest extent of snow cover at this point in the season in at least 10 years, according to NOAA. Much of the snow came from a massive spring blizzard that dropped snow throughout the Midwest and East Coast, breaking records in many cities.
The town of Lincoln, Ill., broke its daily snow total of 4 inches (10 centimeters), which was set in 1947, with 10.8 inches (27 cm) of snow on Sunday (March 24), according to AccuWeather. The weather system also dropped 2.9 inches (7.4 cm) of snow in Columbus, Ohio, breaking the old record of 1.8 inches (4.6 cm) set in 1965.
Currently, 44 of 50 states have some snow on the ground. The only states without any of the fluffy stuff are Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Rhode Island.
So far in March, more than 1,741 daily snowfall records have been set or tied compared to only 616 at this time last year, according to the Capitol Weather Gang.
The image of U.S. snow cover was created from data gathered by NOAA's Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System, which uses satellites to measure snowfall based on the amount of light reflected from the Earth's surface (snow reflects more light than bare earth).
Certain areas that received excess snow will still show on that map, but after a couple days most of the lower ares have melted such as the one I reside in, and maybe this weekend we will see 'normal' highs during the day, as this winter season sees the cooler trend lengthening after the pattern from last year, which doesn't bode well for next season.
More interesting would be an update of this map now, to see what's left in those areas that received a foot of more of snow. Around the world, it seems the pattern has definitely reversed as even Al Gore must be realizing as his voice has been rather muted in recent months. Where are the liars in the face of truth? Sure they remain, but they are getting rather ridiculous to listen to, so much so that even that name of 'global warming' had to be changed to 'climate change', which can serve as an excuse for nearly anything, and serves their purposes much better as it leaves them an exit out of any trap Mother Nature throws at them... except those pesky cosmic critters of course, but by then they will have surely burrowed deep into their hiddie holes.