The dark area in the middle is the general area of the Atchafalaya basin / swamp, which I assume is wet enough to melt the snowfall. Yesterday there was snow falling on the Gulf of Mexico. Houston, Texas got some as well. New Orleans and areas north of Lake Pontchartrain got as much as 7 inches / 17 cm, based on a few reports I saw. I suspect @patdavid got snow in the Mobile, AL area.
I’m located right at the very top, just above where the green highway line turns northwest. We got about 3.5" / 8.9 cm snow Monday night into Tuesday morning. Hardly Arctic, but a little unusual for our area. We typically see snow only about every four to five years.
Our overnight low was 15F / -9C. Thirty years ago that would’ve been very unusual, but this is the third or fourth time in the past fifteen years I’ve seen it get that low. About 90 miles / 144 km south of us (50 miles / 80 km from the Gulf of Mexico) there were numerous overnight lows of 5F / -15C. That’s highly atypical in an area ill-equipped to handle it.
While none of this is unusual for those accustomed to Real Winter, fact is we’re just not (we get Real Hot Summer™ instead). Given acclimatization I’m sure I could learn to work with it normally. In fact, although I don’t like cold, per se, I’d gladly take a little more winter in a general sense if it meant we could dispense with some of that five+ month waste of time that is the hot humid summertime in the US Gulf South.
Amazing – that’s more than we got in many areas of western New York. We stayed close to -15 C for the past couple of days, and it went down to -20 C early this morning, but only for a few hours.
Living in Alabama and, though we only got a bit of the white stuff, had a snow day off from full time job (had to work OT for a co-worker on my day off last night; at least it was from home).
I just saw another report that some areas (at least) in New Orleans got 10 inches of snow. That’s unprecedented as far as I know. Given NOLA’s below-sea-level “elevation”, they might flood from the melt water!
Checking in here from Mobile, AL. We got ~7.5 inches and broke a 100+ year old record for snowfall here. It was weird seeing parts of Mobile Bay covered in snow and partially frozen in the shallows…
We’re still waiting for our usual winter here in the Okanagan, British Columbia. We usually have a fair amount of snow, but nothing this year and temperatures have barely dipped below zero.
@paperdigits I feel for you and can relate. We often get wildfires in the summer and hundreds of homes here were lost a couple of years ago as the fire swept down to residential areas (Kelowna). It’s apocalyptic and surreal.
A bit offtopic but a different continent, here in Portugal we’ve been hit by a storm and it has been a week of no sun and 85% humidity, pure hell. I don’t get how some people can handle near constant darkness all the time
I guess they then mean: “Now is the winter of our discontent”, but hope for an ad from the local sports shop: “Now there’s a discount on our winter tents”.
