‘Dec. 2012 the area of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was at its highest for 130 years at almost 3 million square km, or over 200,000 km above previous record in 1985’ acccording to NOAA
But 'the IPCC predicted the exact opposite in 2001: 'Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms' & In IPCC Draft 1995: 'shrinking snow cover in winter'