{"id":3209,"date":"2010-12-23T08:41:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2010-12-23T08:41:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T15:41:46","slug":"more-than-45-of-nation-covered-in-snow-while-thornton-remains-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/more-than-45-of-nation-covered-in-snow-while-thornton-remains-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 45% of nation covered in snow while Thornton remains dry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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United States snow cover map as of December 23, 2010. Click for larger image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year a pre-holiday snowstorm covered Thornton in a blanket of white ensuring we had a white Christmas. This year the color will be brown for the Front Range but a sizeable chunk of the United States will have snow on the ground for the holiday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From North Dakota to Minnesota and Iowa, a major winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow on the upper Midwest two weeks ago.\u00a0 The sheer weight of the snow was enough to collapse the Metrodome in Minnesota and send the Minnesota Vikings scrambling to find someplace to play football<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A new storm in recent days has brought flooding rains to California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah while the higher elevations in those states plus western Colorado see extraordinary snowfall.\u00a0 Over a five day period many areas were finding that even a yard stick isn’t tall enough to record the snow that has fallen.<\/p>\n