US / snow Snow Lands on 49 States Storms leave Florida only snow-free state By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted Jan 12, 2011 1:20 AM CST Updated Jan 12, 2011 7:24 AM CST Copied Brent Higgins, front, sleds down a hill at Renaissance Park in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Chattangooga Times, Patrick Smith) Snow is on the ground in every state except one after winter storms in the South, Plains, and the Midwest left America so snowy that a snowball could practically be rolled from coast to coast. Even Hawaii has winter snow on the summits of volcanoes, leaving Florida as the only snow-free state, CNN reports. Snow is on the ground in 69.4% of the lower 48, and merging storms are set to dump another couple of feet of snow on the Northeast. (More snow stories.) Report an error