Nearly 50 Percent of Nation Covered in Snow [1]

AccuWeather.com-3/27/13, Alex Sosnowski

Snow cover on March 25, 2013, covered 48.7 percent of the country. Compared to March 25, 2012, only less than 8 percent of the nation had at least an inch of snow on the ground. Most of that was limited to the high country in the West and in northern New England.

Much of the northern United States has a blanket of snow on the ground this March, when compared to practically no snow this time last year.

A series of storms sweeping across the nation from the Northwest to the Northeast and at times dipping into part of the South has delivered near- to above-normal snowfall in many locations this winter and early spring.

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