Trends in Snow Cover by CRAIG JAMES On the morning of January
12, 2011, an amazing 71% of the lower 48 states had at least a
little snow on the ground. You can see on this map from the
National Weather Service National Operational Hydrologic Remote
Sensing Center in Minnesota that Florida was the only state with
no snow, although it was not far away. That means at least parts
of 49 of the 50 states had snow on the ground since the volcano
tops in Hawaii were also snow covered. Last year on February 12,
the same thing happened, although this time there was a little
snow in the Florida Panhandle but none in Hawaii, at least not
officially. However, upon further investigation, some people
supposedly took pictures on that day of a little snow left on
the north slope of Mauna Kea, the highest mountain in Hawaii. If
that was true, it would have been the first time all 50 states
had snow at the same time in living memory. There are no
official records of this statistic, but it is indeed a rare
event. Rutger’s Univer