East Tennessee 02/12/10
Posted on 02/12/2010 4:00:55 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
Patrick Marsh is a meteorology student at OU who is trying to collect pictures of snow on the ground from all 50 states.
Forecasters said currently there is snow on the ground in some part of every state except Florida, which is expected to get a couple of inches in the panhandle on Friday.
NORMAN, Oklahoma -- A University of Oklahoma student is taking an extra interest in this week's snow storms in the south and northeast and is working to document the events in a very unique way.
Patrick Marsh said it's likely by the end of the week snow will be on the ground in all 50 states.
From Ardmore all the way to Dallas and even in Louisiana, the south is snowed in. For many, it's a winter wonderland in places that rarely see such weather. But none of it comes close to the mess up north where two blizzards have blown through in a week.
Weather like this is why Marsh is studying to be a meteorologist. Even as the snow fell outside the National Weather Center in Norman, inside Marsh was tracking what could be a rare winter weather phenomenon.
Marsh, a student employee at the NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, is currently trying to collect photos of snow on the ground in all 50 states.
"On Friday afternoon, I'm going to begin asking for photos of the snow," Marsh said. "Hopefully I'll get photos from all 50 states, and if I do, I'll put them into a Google Earth map and make a snow snapshot of America."
Marsh said Florida is the only state without snow on the ground at this point, but he said two to four inches of snow is forecasted on Friday in some parts of the state. There is currently even snow on some of the mountain tops in Hawaii.
If you or someone you know in the United States has snow on the ground where they are, tell them to take a pictures and send it to snow@forwarn.org.
Neat idea...snow pics from every state.
If the Florida panhandle gets its couple inches, then there will be snow on the ground in all 50 states? Wow! Has that happened before?
We’ve been under a heavy blanket of the white stuff for over two months here in MN, and the extended forecast calls for mid-20s highs and single digit lows for the foreseeable future, so it’s not melting anytime soon.
ZOMG... global warming has affected the whole country!
He says he’s unsure if such a weather phenomenon has ever occurred before. A spokesman for the National Climatic Data Center didn’t immediately return messages left Thursday.
It has happened before. I remember it occurring in the late 70s or early 80s. Usually, Fla and La are the last holdouts, and a southern snow that hits Fla probably got the rest of the south.
Are you sure it isn’t all 57 states?
East Tennessee 02/12/10
I never seen anything like this, we have had snow on the ground since early January. Today Atlanta is going to get snowed in.
Pensacola is supposed to get measurable snowfall today for the first time in over 30 years. They closed the gubmint skools in Mobile, AL, today, too. If it’s anything like when we get snowfall here in Chattanooga, store shelves are probably stripped bare of milk, bread, eggs and toilet paper already....
Isn't that what the Census is doing? /s
Come on, Rusty. Look up 'unique' in a dictionary. Hint, it means one of a kind. Very one of a kind? Really.
ping
if it’s anything like hurricane time here, the beer aisle is also bare...
I’m sure around Al Gore’s mansion it is at least 80 degrees and the palm trees are swaying in the breeze....global warming you know. Maybe Al Gore can come to Washington and part the snow drifts like Moses did the Red Sea.
That said, I better head for Walmart.
GW PING!!!
I live 30 miles north of New Orleans. It is currently snowing. This is the third time in the last 14 months and the 4th time since the white christmas in 2004. Growing up in New Orleans I saw snow exactly twice between 1974 and 2003.
I’ve been down the S. Florida area all winter - from Delray Beach to the Keys. I won’t say it’s been “cold”, but it has certainly been cool, much cooler than I remember in previous years, FWIW.
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