A snow-covered car sits outside a home Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Hundreds of thousands of people were without power by Sunday afternoon across the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia as snow continued to fall. Widespread snow amounts in excess of 12 inches have been reported along the southern Appalachians, with local amounts topping 24 inches. It's not just the mountains seeing dramatic amounts, however. Roughly 6 to 10 inches have also been reported in a swath from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Richmond, Virginia, with accumulations reported as far north as the southern suburbs of Washington, D.C.
25 centimetres of snow might not sound so earth-shattering to winter-savvy Canadians, but, for perspective, many locations in the Carolinas have now seen snowfall equal to, and in many cases greater than, what they normally see in an entire winter season. And it all fell in fewer than 24 hours.
Comment: North America just had its most extensive November snow cover in at least a half-century