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Over to snow probably midnight i would say. baltimore seeing the snow, d.c. seeing it finally end. back up here to new york city, here's the rain and heavier rain you saw earlier. and here's boston now, finally getting out of the way of the precip you saw all day long. here's the new model and here's where the heaviest snow will be. here's the thruway. that would be lake placid. ironically, john, 34 years ago today the winter olympics began in lake placid. tonight they get eight inches of new snow. wouldn't sochi like some of that snow? >> i remember it well, thank you very much, chad myers. y...

You saw earlier. and here's boston now, finally getting out of the way of the precip you saw all day long. here's the new model and here's where the heaviest snow will be. here's the thruway. that would be lake placid. ironically, john, 34 years ago today the winter olympics began in lake placid. tonight they get eight inches of new snow. wouldn't sochi like some of that snow? >> i remember it well, thank you very much, chad myers. you're talking about snow shields and thunder sleet. it sounds like some kind of norris battle with thor. but there's snow in 49 of 50 states right now? >> i have t...

>> reporter: to the great lakes where 80 plus percent of the lakes were iced over for the first time in 20 years, the buildup forming ice caves. >> these were something special. i've never seen anything like it. they're as big as a garage. >> reporter: people in so many different regions say they've never seen weather like this winter's. over the past week, we reached a point where 49 out of 50 states have had snow on the ground. we've seen so-called thundersleet. captured in this i-report video from a backyard deck in grand meadow, new jersey. but also a punishing drought in california. peopl...

Very menacing. what is thunder sleet? >> it is thunder and sleet happening at the same time. it happened at the university of richmond and southeast virginia today. sleet was coming down so hard that it actually -- think about this. you're wearing just leather shoes. you rub your feet on the polyester carpet and touch the doorknob. that's a shock. that's what was happening there. the shock of the sheer of the sleet up there freezing, bouncing off each other, made static electricity, made a lightning bolt although it didn't go to the ground it went cloud to cloud, not cloud to ground. you hear ...

Service is calling thunder sleet, and even lightning, some dramatic images last night at lightning lit up the skyline, and temperatures in the 20s, at least for the next few days. all of this heavy snow will be here for a while, and farmers struggling with the long and severe drought hope that's the case. the slower it takes for it to melt, the more the snow will help out. now it oops the storm door is open. forecasters talking about another chance of snow by next week. >> shepard: in kansas kirk claudia sliding out. janice dean slide in from the extreme weather center. what now? >> look at th...