Here's the current satellite map from the Weather Channel:
and here's the forecast map:
Where's the raging winter weather????
Note to people coming to this thread after 12/7 - these maps will change over time, as the link is to the Weather Channel site, which will update these maps. At the time I posted this, there was no winter weather present.
Actually I've been posting here since September that Washington D.C. has more severe winters then the major cities of Afghanistan. I checked the climatological data for Afghanistan and found that Afghan winters are milder than the entire American Northeast. Not to mention the Plains states and Colorado Rockies. So much for those "brutally cold" Afghan winters that the media have been warning us about.
Granted, it is cold in the mountains. But no colder than the Rockies or the White Mountains up in New Hampshire.