Satellite Photo Today Shows Snow Covering Most Of Northeast

Snow covers most of the Northeast now, as today
visible satellite photo shows. Click on the photo
to make it bigger and easier to see. Unfortunately
for White Christmas lovers, a lot of the snow
cover will be wiped out before the holiday. 

 Skies cleared across almost all of the Northeast today, revealing just how extensive the snow cover is.

A storm that missed Vermont on Sunday laid down a stripe of snow from Delaware to Maine. The Northeast now has a more extensive snow cover this early in the season that it's had in a long time. 

If you click on the satellite photo in this post to make it bigger and easier to see, the snow cover extended all the way down the coast to southern Delaware. 

Sunday's storm hugged the coast, so you can see that north-central Virginia and a little piece of south-central Pennsylvania missed out on the snow. 

Further west, you can see that West Virginia is snowy white, mostly from small weather systems that moved in from the west late last week, and the remnants of lake effect snows from the Great Lakes running up against West Virginia's mountains. 

It's still early in the season so you can see that lakes aren't frozen yet. Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire looks wide open. Same thing for Lake Champlain, as you can just see poking out of some cloud cover late this morning near the spot where Vermont, New York and Quebec converge.

For those of you dreaming of a White Christmas, that's a really iffy proposition for most of the Northeast except for northern New England and a lot of areas near the Great Lakes. 

A warmer weather pattern is taking shape, which will melt the snow. Aside from the wet and windy storm late this week I talked about in this morning's post, northern New England should remain mostly cold enough to get a little more snow before the Big Day