Snowmen in Alabama? Sledding in Mississippi? From Texas to Georgia, snow blankets the South

MSN Web site ^ | 9 Dec 2017 | Jenny Jarvie and Jaweed Kaleem

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ATLANTA. Snow blanketed a vast swath of the Deep South on Friday, triggering a flurry of winter weather warnings that closed businesses and schools, canceled hundreds of flights and caused traffic gridlock. It also unleashed a flurry of snowman construction and sledding in places more accustomed to sunshine than snow.

The storm dropped a rare coating of snow as far south as Brownsville, Texas - near the border of Mexico - up through southern Louisiana and parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the southern Appalachians.

"This is an unusual event - to see snow falling this early in the season all the way from Texas and the Gulf Coast region to Georgia," said Laura Pagano, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Atlanta/Peachtree City office. "It has happened before, but not often."

More than 200,000 customers across the region lost power as snow downed branches and power lines.

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Here are the latest snowfall totals from the National Weather Service in Boston and Rob Macedo, the SKYWARN Coordinator for the National Weather Service in Taunton, for the Dec. 9 storm as of 10:55 p.m.

Arlington	7.2″
Lexington	6.6″
Northboro	6.6″
North Reading	6.5″
Dracut	6.4″
Hubbardston	6.1″
E. Longmeadow	6.0″
Sherborn	5.8″
New Braintree	5.8″
Burlington	5.8″
Lunenburg	5.7″
N. Chelmsford	5.7″
Agawam	5.6″
Ayer	5.5″
Bradford	5.5″
N. Chelmsford	5.3″
Leominster	5.2″
Lynn	5.0″
Ware	5.0″
Ludlow	5.0″
Braintree	5.0″
Harvard	5.0″
Bellingham	5.0″
Needham	4.9″
Chelsea	4.7″
Sharon	4.5″	http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/12/09/boston-massachusetts-december-8-snow-storm-totals/