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Yesterday's snow cover extent across Northern Hemisphere lands. For more daily charts,
including the departure from satellite-era normal, click the map.
Check out the daily monitoring dashboard for the latest snow cover extent across the Northern Hemisphere. Features include snow season tracking, departures from the 2001-2020 mean, and an interactive map viewer.
Snow Extent CDRRutgers University Global Snow Lab maps, figures and tabular data are generated from the Northern Hemisphere SCE CDR v01r01. This is the latest version, now available from NCEI. Dataset updates to v02r00 are in progress and will be published soon.
About the GSLWelcome to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab. Here you will find various unique products regarding global snow cover. Maps, graphic products and tabular data are available.
Average snow cover extent for the latest month. Based on Rutgers GSL analysis of NOAA daily snow maps. For more results, including the monthly departure from normal for this and other months back to the late 1960s click the map.
2025 Annual ReportAnnual snow cover extent (SCE) over Northern Hemisphere lands averaged 23.7 million sq. kilometers in 2025. This was 1.2 million sq. km less than the 1991-2020 mean and ranks 2025 as having the 3rd least extensive annual cover on record... [download]
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