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   Winter Snow Cover in the Northern Hemisphere   
      
   https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/2657/winter-snow-cover-   
   n-the-northern-hemisphere   
      
   https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/2000/2657/na_   
   mo_snowcover_lrg.jpg   
      
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   These images are archives but show how bad it gets. Snow reflects solar   
   energy back into space so it amplifies cooling. The second link above is for   
   a clickable high resolution image. One can see ice beginning to form on the   
   Great Lakes, so this is early winter. By late winter fresh water lakes and   
   Hudson Bay are 100% frozen. Lake Eire is six feet above normal so there will   
   be great damage in cottage country. It is a miracle of the modern era that   
   snow and ice melt in Spring or early Summer. As late as 14,000 years ago it   
   did not melt but formed a miles high continental ice sheet that scoured the   
   land. Glacier scoured bedrock can be seen in Central Park in NYC, NY, USA.   
      
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