As Christmas approaches, snow cover in the United States and other parts of North America is at its lowest extent on record for the time of year — in many cases melted away by record-warm weather.

The snow cover for the United States extends to our north and to our east. This map shows the current snow and ice cover. The snow depth in central and south central North Dakota is still over a foot.

Aside from southern New England, the study also identifies snow cover decline “hotspots” among several areas in Europe and Asia, with the most impact on the Andes mountain region in South America.

Anna joined Newsweek in 2022 from Current Publishing ... Pacific Northwest. Snow will hit the western U.S. first before it moves eastward. The forecasted snow could cover roughly 60 percent ...

Here are the current snow cover amounts over the Great Lakes region. Snow on the ground currently on January 12, 2023 Once you drive north over the Mackinac, you will quickly find enough snow to ...

As a postdoctoral fellow, he ran global climate modeling experiments to determine the influence of unusual North American snow cover over other large-scale climate patterns. Instead, he found the ...

As of today, snow cover remains quite substantial across our region, especially to the north and west ... general flooding as the snow melts. This current weather pattern we’re in is ideal ...

One of nature’s woody behemoths — the North American snow forest — may soon begin ... while its southerly tree cover has thinned, researchers report June 8 in Nature Communications.

Ice cover in North America’s Great Lakes has hit its lowest level for 50 years after an unusually warm start to winter, continuing a decline that is being closely monitored for its links to ...

It found southern New England is losing its snow cover at the fastest rate in North America. The finding comes as New England temperatures are already warming faster than national averages from ...

Southern New England is losing its snow cover at one of the fastest rates in the world, according to a new study. The research appears in the journal Climate and looks at snowfall data from the ...