See How Your City's Snow Stacks Up

snow storm, canceled flights, closed roads — A record-breaking snowstorm struck Colorado, as seen above on Feb. 5, 2012, closing an interstate highway, grounding flights, and dropping more than a foot of snow on the Denver area.

(Image credit: NASA.)

This winter's snowfall has been lackluster in many U.S. cities, and there are numbers to back that up.

February is almost over, and people across the country are still wondering: Where is winter? As OurAmazingPlanet previously reported, the nation has been snow poor this winter. Last winter, the Deep South was a-buzz from an unusually big snowfall, and the Northeast was socked by a post-Christmas blizzard. But this winter, climate patterns have conspired to make winter a snow strikeout for much of the nation.

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Brett Israel was a staff writer for Live Science with a focus on environmental issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from The University of Georgia, a master’s degree in journalism from New York University, and has studied doctorate-level biochemistry at Emory University.