Melting snow the past 3 days, adding moisture to the air, and night time lows just below zero this morning, along with calm winds, made for a perfect freezing fog event across parts of the area. I’m not sure exactly how much of the area saw freezing fog, but I do know at least all of the Western half of the area did, This was the second time this year that I’ve seen very thick hoar frost.

This was especially one of the more thicker hoar frosts I’ve see on pine trees, The needle’s were almost completely hidden!

Look how thick it is on this Birch tree! I had a low of -1.F this morning, then after daybreak the sun broke out of the clouds and we had brilliant blue skies again! it was already in the low teens by 11AM

here is one last picture of the frost accumulation on our birch tree, The branches almost look fake!

Image from NOAA

Although we’ve had thick snowcover in Wisconsin for the past 3 months, I have been following something quite a bit more rare, This morning there was at least a trace of snow cover reported in every state in the Continental U.S from Wisconsin to Florida, California to South Carolina! This is actually quite rare, a Yahoo News Story said 65% of the U.S has snow cover right now, when normally just 40″ to 50% of the U.S has snow cover! I myself have actually never seen so much snow covering the U.S Most years, I’ve notice this time of year the southern extent of the snow cover is normally around southern Iowa, and Central Illinois, but that is not the case this year! Much of the U.S has see a very snowy, and cool winter this year, even here in the local area, it has been notable snowy, I’ve received well over half of our normal winter snowfall already! Hopefully we will have a nice warm summer to make up for this!