An animation of satellite images shows white Christmas on the Big Island of Hawaii . (Source: NASA) A bit more than a third of the lower 48 states of the United States enjoyed (or endured?) a white Christmas yesterday. (That's a smidge less than normal for this time of year.) Meanwhile, halfway across the Pacific Ocean, all that residents of the Big Island of Hawaii had to do to enjoy a white Christmas was to look up. As a blog post by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies noted:
. . . a deep cutoff low over the Hawaiian Islands had brought unusually cold air aloft . . . and strong winds, which prompted blizzard warnings to be issued for the high elevation summits of the Big Island of Hawaii on 23-24 December.
Big Island of Hawaii. (Satellite image: NASA) You can see the result in the animation above. ...
