Most of North America is looking snowy this week, after a mostly dry period in the run up to Christmas.
The best news was snowfall for ski areas in Colorado and Utah around Christmas Day after one of the worst starts to the season for years in the famous ski states. Around 60cm (two feet) of snow fell at many areas. This hasn’t totally changed the overall snow shortage but it has greatly improved things.
Here’s Breckenridge:
There’s been more snow in the East too including some remarkable falls in states not particularly famous for big snow including Pennsylvania and New York State where up to five feet (1.5m) of snow fell.
Here’s Snow Ridge in New York state which got a metre of snow:
It’s been cold too though with wind chill taking temperatures down to -50F below at times causing some ski areas in Maine to close until things warmed up a little.
North of the border in Canada there’s been low temperatures and fresh snow from East to West coasts. Mt Norquay is pictured top.