Quiz: Can you guess from these photos how much snow fell across the U.S.? (msn.com)

The Lower 48 states had their most extensive mid-January snow cover in at least 20 years after multiple blasts of Arctic air and winter storms. Look at each photo and try to guess how many inches of snow were recorded in major cities in recent days.

Of their cities pictured, the furthest west they went was Kansas City, Missouri. The western half of the US does not exist, including cities that have seen record breaking cold. I have not been out of the house for 8 days due to subzero temperatures, snow and freezing rain.

While Chicago had a much-publicized issue with EV charging, there is no news coverage outside our community about many gas stations running out of gas this week as fuel trucks were unable to cross the mountain passes. Why focus in on the one city with EV charging issues and ignore the cities without gasoline?

In the above, they pretend to give a national picture – but then miss half the country.

It might be because the reporters are truly out of touch.

One attended Cardiff University and Vienna University, and is based in London, UK. He is a “climate graphics reporter”. The other is a Information Lead and Forecaster with a degree in Political Science, Middle East, and terrorism from the University of Connecticut. To them, the west coast of the U.S. does not exist – it’s probably inhabited by uneducated rural dweebs who can’t read.