 
I cannot remember the last time I saw a consolidated mass of moisture covering the eastern US. This (despite the bummer it presents in regard to my wood-gathering ambitions) is one of the most beautiful images I’ve seen in some while. Even the parched parts of Alabama and Georgia will get a much-needed couple of inches out of this system that swirls in the loop animation like an over-land hurricane.
Note that there is a the time of this screen capture HEAVY SNOW IN NEW ORLEANS!
Yikes! Mr. Geek is supposed to be flying home From New Orleans today. I hope the weather isn’t too bad!
I love it! The only worry it causes me is wondering whether I should spend the money to buy my 2-year-old some real snow boots this year.
The rain has been so wonderful here! Now it’s sunny…but snow in Nola?!
Yes, Fred, we had snow and lots of it. The most we have had in the last 19 years and the earliest snowfall ever. By noon it stopped but the ground is still covered. It was fun while it lasted.
I talked to my sister in law who lives 15 minutes from NO. She said the sonow was beautiful while it lasted but it was gone by 3pm.
Fred, I’m commenting on your Twitter message about the coal mining in Colombia. I live over here in the coal fields of Kentucky and have spent time in those coal fields in Colombia this year. Just a couple weeks ago, two union coal miners from La Guajira and a neighboring department, Cesar, visited eastern Kentucky for about a week on their speaking tour of the US. I was honored to get to speak with them in Lexington and Alabama and Georgia. Everywhere we went, they mentioned the destruction they saw here in the US from mountaintop removal mining–something they never imagined could have existed here in America, where everything was “all right” in their imaginations.
I’ve been lurking on your blog for more than a year now (and met you briefly at the Alliance for Appalachia reception at the SEJ conference), and just wanted to say “Thanks” for writing about MTR and other coal issues here and elsewhere. What a blessing to have those Appalachians outside the coal fields working in solidarity with those of us in them.
And, I can say, the Colombians feel the same way. They appreciate all those here who work to better their conditions there. As they told me, “Our struggle is your struggle, and your struggle is our struggle.”
And, by the way, Dominion is a major buyer of Colombian coal from the Guajira.