We're two-thirds of the way through meteorological winter -- December, January and February -- and some regions of the United States are receiving more snow than usual, while others are falling well short of the historical average.
As of Feb. 2, data from NOAA's National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center shows that snow currently covers the ground in the bulk of the eastern half of the nation, but only covers the mountains in the West. The 40.5 snow coverage for the entire country is near the historical average for January going into February.
Most of the western two-thirds of the country, is stuck at near-zero percent of the historical average snowfall through Dec. 9.
On the other hand, parts of the Midwest and Northeast are above the historical average to date. And the parts of the South -- much of Texas, northern Louisiana, Georgia, and the Carolinas -- are 3 to 6 times their historical average.
West Coast remains in snow drought
