US Receives Its Lowest Early December Snow in 18 Years

According to statistics from the National Weather Service (NWS), just 6.0 percent of the contiguous United States is blanketed with snow as of Dec. 3. This is the least amount of snow covering for this time of year since 2003 when tracking of the statistics on contiguous U.S. snow coverage began. In 2020, that number was 16.9%, while in 2019, over half of the country was blanketed in snow, with 45.4 percent of the country covered.