Another sign of climate change and weather volatility.\u00a0 Although winter was very cold, the dip in temperatures was brief and not long enough for ice and snow cover to accumulate.<\/p>\n
From Earth Observatory<\/a>:<\/p>\n Winter 2009-2010 was much colder than normal<\/a> for the United States, and it delivered a string of record-breaking snowstorms that began on the winter solstice.<\/a><\/p>\n The snow and cold didn\u2019t linger far into the spring, however. By the end of April, North American snow cover had retreated to the lowest extent in the 1967\u20132010 record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s April 2010 State of the Climate Report.<\/a> This map shows percent snow cover across North America in April 2010 based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)<\/a> on NASA\u2019s Terra<\/a> satellite. Percent snow cover ranges from just above zero (light blue) to 100 percent (white). Land areas with no detectable snow cover during the month are gray.<\/p>\n According to NOAA, \u201cAcross North America, snow cover for April 2010 was 2.2 million square kilometers below average<\/a>\u2014the lowest April snow cover extent since satellite records began in 1967 and the largest negative anomaly to occur in the 521 months that satellite measurements are available.\u201d Unusual warmth descended on North America in April, leading to both low snowfall amounts and rapid melt of existing snow.<\/p>\n The Earth Observatory\u2019s Global Maps section provides an animation of monthly, <\/a>global snow cover<\/a> from February 2000 to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another sign of climate change and weather volatility.\u00a0 Although winter was very cold, the dip in temperatures was brief and not long enough for ice and snow cover to accumulate. From Earth Observatory: Winter 2009-2010 was much colder than normal for the United States, and it delivered a string of record-breaking snowstorms that began on …
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