Some of you are still digging out from the snowstorm that fell across a large swath of the South from Louisiana and Texas all the way to eastern North Carolina and Virginia. Here in Athens we were on the northern edge of the storm with just 1/2 inch, but many people in southern GA and southeastern Alabama received up to 8 inches or even more in a few places. The map below, produced by Jordan McLeod of the University of South Alabama, shows the extent and amounts of the snow.
The snow cover was even visible from space, as seen in this visible satellite image:
I’m not going to post an article here about the storm development and all the snowfall records that were broken, but I am sure that will come later. For now, you can read more from the North Carolina State Climate office on their blog at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2025/01/rapid-reaction-snow-coats-the-coast-in-rare-southeastern-wintry-event/.
You can really see the main impact of the storm on transportation on this traffic map from Atlanta, which shows where the snow fell and froze on the frigid ground (similar to the Snowmageddon of 2014) and where it did not on the afternoon of the 21st.
