The South gets less snow because of the jet stream over North America. It tends to drive winter storm systems to the north and east, usually passing on the north side of cities like Atlanta and Charlotte. It's plenty cold enough here through much of late December, January and February to get snow, but the storms miss us, usually.



I just used weather dot com, and it's actually about 10 degrees F colder in Atlanta right now than it is in Tokyo, though it's apparently raining in both places right now.