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Here in Chicago we have alot of snow too. It is very cold.

Only the bottom half is called England - I'm in the top half and there is indeed a lot of snow this year!

Fantastic picture indeed. Do you have any idea which satellite took it?

Very nice picture. I think Germany looks also white ;-)

@Mario: it does...

You can see Northern Ireland there as well, and let me tell you it's freezing here.

errr...That's England, Scotland and Wales ( and you can see a bit of Northern Ireland). We like to call it "Britain".

great photo but only part of it is England!

Typical ignorance...

I think you'll find they were paying attention to the best part, which is called England

The title is accurate--the photo does show England covered in snow. The photo also shows Scotland, Wales, and even the Isle of Mann. The body of the post does mention that the photo shows Great Britain.

Like it or not, much of the world thinks of Great Britain as England and writing England is shorter than writing Great Britain. :-)

The satellite photo is from NASA:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/

That's Ireland on the left, also feeling the snow.

What is wrong with you people? All Will was trying to do was show everyone this amazing picture! It's not very often this happens and it looks brilliant. If my 6 year old can appreciate it then why can't you lot instead of picking holes in everything that Will wrote?!?!?!?

What a surprise.....its all about England, there are other countries in this picture!!!!!!!! one being SCOTLAND!!!!

get a life u lot. the photo is amazing, thanks for posting it will. ignore the idiots making pointless comments!

Not only does it show Scotland. The picture was released by Dundee University as captured by a NASA satellite!

And now we know why the weather is acting thus. .... There is an easily discernible fang bearing, bearded, frost deity wrapping himself around East Anglia. An Ice Queen hovers above the Irish sea blowing sub zero air towards the Scottish/English border. And the familiar Winter Irish Setter is sniffing the N.E, coast of Scotland with its icy breath.

Where's the University of East Anglia in this picture? Oh, there it is, in the State of Denial. #tcot

Great photo of England and its other provinces - thanks for sharing this.

Great picture,looks like my home country Canada and not the England I remember.

Great photo Thanks NASA> its helps Will when posting to be accurate and acknowledge sources makes for a better website, but Google took me to you so well done.

This looks almost as cool as in the film The Day After Tomorrow, but we all know that the film compressed the events of about 50 years into 4 days, so things will happen much slower in real life.

I never knew Wales, Scotland and Ireland existed. Thanks to all the insecure, defensive posters for pointing that out!

Nice try Mark. Everyone knows the best part is England's northern neighbour. Must build that wall a bit higher!!

P.S. Great picture regardless.

Actually the only 'country' their besides the UK is the Republic of Ireland, Scotland isnt an official country!! We actually fought against the horrible English and won!! Hate that scots/welsh!! lol

great picture thanks.
i'm looking at this from australia, its quite sad though how the scottish think their comments are necessary or indeed wanted. we all know you exist, stop feeling left out all the time.
nice pic all the same

Great picture i saw it on the news. And if you want to be flippant, Scotland and Wales even though they have thier own govenments, all policies have to go though WestMinister. Agreed the Republic of Ireland has never been classified as part of the Great British Empire. and if you actually measure landmass England covours alot more.. and has the largest population.
At the end of the day, we have to appreciate this picture for what it is. and that is showing Great Britain, United Kingdom, Is covered in the white stuff, no not coccain I mean snow.

Hey Richard, I have always thought that 'alot' were two words ie 'a lot' -this seems, God knows why, a common mistake these days. Anyway, a great picture.

Its revenge for leaving colonists behind in the Great White North (also known as Canada) ... just took 400 years to get even :)

Correct me if I'm wrong but that's the UK not just England, ignorant gits!

Yes it is a great picture and thank you for posting it. However it does upset me as it is labelled as England. Scottish, welsh and mancs are incredibly patriotic and it’s not surprising that they were upset by this.

The thing that adds injury to insult is that you recognise the fact that a large number of people refer to Great Britain as England and you still decide to reinforce this mistake by titling as you have. To be frank if it was posted as it was due to ignorance then it wouldn’t have bothered me but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Can the post not be changed?

Yes It's shorter to type England than Great Britain but it’s also shorter too type picture of Britain under snow. It’s also the same amount of characters to type picture of Great Britain under snow. Why does it have to be shorter anyway?

In conclusion I don’t think you would post a picture of the U.S.A and give it the title of picture of 13 states of America even although all states are visible. This title is inaccurate.

It's GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well over in here in south eastern Australia as the temperature climbs to 43 degrees Celsius it looks amazing no matter what name you give the countries.

Oh No. This is not England.
This is England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, Northern Irleand a bit of Ireland

is this France and Belgium at right side

oh wait you forgot clouds and water

some people have problems
What is wrong with the title? You see England under snow.
And other things.

I live in Bridport, about 2 miles northwards of the south coast, (from West Bay) and we've had so little snow it's almost not there. It doesn't show up on this satellite picture though.

Thankfully I now live in New Zealand and don't have to put up with all that pointless bickering.

I suspect the point Will was making by labelling the picture "England Under Snow! is that it's very rare for the *whole* of England to be affected in this way (Wales because of its high ground, and Scotland being further north, are far more prone to snow in winter than England is). Living in London all her life, my 19 year old daughter has never before experienced this much snow. It's an amazing picture.

Don't worry guys...i'm sure he didn't mean to ignore you!
He obviously knows it's Great Britian as he's written it in the caption. You wouldn't write every state of Australia now would you? Although you may write, 'Ayers Rock under snow', simply because it would be a rarity.
The picture is amazing so stop moaning and admire it for what it is!
Nature at it's best! Just wish i was back in Wales to appreciate it!

I migrated to perth west australia 40 years ago. the snow looks heavenly outside today it is over 100 degrees, awful. I would appreciate abit of snow.

SAY WHAA IS IT BOILING!? 100 DEGREES!!!!?!!?!?!?!? WATER BOILS AT THAT TEMP... YOU MUST BE JOKING

AHA! There's your evidence of global warming!

(By the way, yur friend, I think they mean Fahrenheit, not Celsius - how could anyone be so insensitive to geopolitical reality?) ;-)

Oh this was sooo entertaining to read through! You could all be politicians in South Africa the way you pick crap apart ;-) I will be mindful not to post a picture of South Africa that happens to show any bit of the rest of Africa in it. Not so cool to be on the receiving end of this argument....

If you look carefully at your globe Junloc you will see that much of Canada (and 90%+ of Canadians) lies in "The Great White South" by British and Irish standards.. Dundee in Scotland is at the same latitude as the North of Hudson Bay.

Oh my god you Scots are so pathetic! England makes up 50 million of the UK's 60 million population, we have almost twice the land as you and we have almost all of the big businesses and attractions of the UK so stop your whining and just accept that England has always and always will be the most important place to people looking from other countries. That doesn't mean Scotland is a bad place, just that it isn't as well known!
Now get over it because you wouldn't have half the things you do today without your dear friend England!

The great Canadian cities of Vancover,Quebec,Montreal,Toronto,Ottowa etc are so far south of Ireland (and Britain.) they almost qualify as "tropical".

I agree, the Scots are jealous because everyone knows England is and always will be the most important country in the UK. Sure, go ahead, become independent, we wont help you when you are defenceless and at the mercy of some communist country trying to invade your land. we have the nukes, not you. lousy ba$tard scots!

^^ so true!

Tchah, this isn't just Great Britain, all you parochial people. This is a good part of The British Isles. And I got a throat cleared at me for using that term in Ireland once. "We don't call them that here" I was told gently but firmly, "we call them These Islands". (No, I didn't ask what you're supposed to call them if you happen to be standing in New York or Hong Kong at the time. It was a party and I wanted to have a nice time.)

Jocose pedantry aside, here's hoping we get an equivalently outstanding summer picture, when the whole of ... of ... of the landmass is completely clear of any cloud.

100 degrees F in Perth is extraordinary.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland since 1900 ad was 32.5 decrees C during the blistering summer of1976. (That's Just about 90 degrees F).

The Irish nation nearly melted away in the heat.

The highest temperature recorded in England was 38.5 degrees C in Kent. The coldest temperature was -26.1 in Shropshire

I can't actually see Germany, there. A bit of France, Belguim, Luxembourg and a bit of The Netherlands...

...Who said Germany looks white? Mario & Ulf, pay attention, chaps...

Would be graet to see also the alps covered with snow. But to see the british island completely white is also stunning.