Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.
"What winter?" asked Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center. For the Lower 48, January was the third-least snowy on record, according to the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers University. Records for the amount of ground covered by snow go back to 1967.
If you can make your Al Gore jokes in one of those scary European socialist languages—or in Alaskan—go for it, but if you live in the Lower 48 you might as well just play golf. And while we may, of course, still have a substantial blast of cold air and snow in store, it is Groundhog Day, so dreaming is allowed.
Bonus: Nothing is going to make certain relics of our aquaintance [names withheld] feel older faster than talk about snow records that "go back to 1967."
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