I don’t know if this is a record or not for Christmas coverage, but it is certainly reminiscent of the winter of 1977-78 where we had similar bouts of cold and snow. About 99% of Canada has snow cover also, with some parts of the Pacific Coast excepted, and it appears that all of Canada’s Lakes are frozen as indicated by the “yellow ice” in the photo. Here is the latest (Updated for 12/25/09) from NOAA:

From the National Operational Hyrdologic Remote Sensing Center here is the satellite snow depth map and the hard data on coverage:

December 25, 2009

Area Covered By Snow: 63.0% Area Covered Last Month: 10.4% Snow Depth Average: 5.0 in Minimum: 0.0 in Maximum: 889.2 in Std. Dev.: 7.0 in Snow Water Equivalent Average: 0.9 in Minimum: 0.0 in Maximum: 437.5 in Std. Dev.: 1.5 in

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