and prompting oklahoma s governor to declare a state of emergency. let s get more on this from our meteorologist jennifer delgado at the world weather center. hey, jen, is it looking any better? oh, absolutely. you saw those people actually playing in the snow. it s good to keep your sense of humor. yesterday, some locations picked up about 50 centimeters of snowfall. roughly about 20 inches. we want to point out at that storm is continuing to weaken. it s going to be winding down over the next couple hours. you can see taking the rain and snow and that wintry mix with it and we ll see some improvement there. where they would like to see some snow, talking about a measurable amount of snowfall, we re talking in northern china. they are dealing again with a drought across this region, talking about extreme to severe drought, anywhere in orange and red. now, you remember yesterday, we said we had a system that was going through that is going to bring snow around. in fact, we did see sn
proportions and now millions of people are having to do it all over again. another load of freezing weather is blasting across the southern states, bringing normal life to a halt from tennessee, martin savidge reports. reporter: here we snow again. the second blizzard in a week is bearing and battering the nation s midsection and is pushing frigid temperatures and snow deep into dixie. they were sledding on beale street in memphis, the home of the blues was covered in white. were you from chicago? born and raised in memphis. reporter: in the plains, the powerful storm dumped a foot to a foot and a half of snow in parts of oklahoma that didn t need any more. heavy snow also fell in central kansas. in newton it was slow or no going for drivers, winter storm warnings stretch across the south all the way from northern louisiana to northern georgia. the same system reaches all the
way into virginia with nearly the same results. the driver of this pickup probably thought things couldn t get much worse. he was wrong. all along the storm s path, folks are fed up and frustrated as the snow keeps on coming. i was everywhere, and i have on the tires. reporter: back in memphis, rod andrew and his wife karen weren t all that impressed with the snow. after all, they re from alberta canada. this is still a big snow. reporter: in memphis, i m martin savidge. let s get the latest, jen delgado is there ke winter center. it is winding down and that is great news. now, as i show you what s happening on the radar. notice overall, we had snow overnight, again, it s moving out, changing over to rain as