So it is officially January and I'm not sure about you but I'm just wondering WHERE THE HECK IS THE SNOW?

It seems that the colder temperatures and bigger snow storms are coming later and later every year.

It used to be December - February was the heavy snow period. Now, however, it feels more like it is January - March.

At any rate, I was looking up snow predictions for this upcoming year in New Hampshire and I stumbled upon a few interesting things.

First of all, New England is about to be hit with a "polar vortex" this month. It could bring "dangerously cold" temps to the northeast.

To read more about the dangerous cold front we are about to have, click here.

The other REALLY interesting that I found was how much snow New Hampshire gets every year.

Now I have lived in New England all of my life, skied in NH, and lived in NH for 10 years. I know we get a lot of snow, but I never knew it was more than most other states in the USA.

According to a World Population Review article, New Hampshire gets the second-highest amount of snow in the United States, only behind Alaska.

Alaska gets about 72 inches per year. New Hampshire, the next closest state, gets about 60 inches per year.

Not too far behind was Vermont, at 58 inches per year.

This is shocking information to me. I would have guessed that Colorado had the most - nope. Only around 37 inches per year. My guess, however, is that these totals are at ground level. Because peaks of 14,000-foot mountains in Colorado surely get more than New Hampshire.

It turns out that New Englanders are the true winter warriors.

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