As snow continues to pile up around the United States, Florida has earned itself the distinct honor of being the only state with no snow on the ground.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an image Thursday that showed snow on the ground in 49 states, including Hawaii, which has snow near the peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.

Many cities in the Midwest and Northeast have seen greater than average snowfall.  New York City has already surpassed 51 inches for the season, compared to the 16 inches the city normally gets.  

In Allentown, Penn., officials declared a snow emergency, telling residents to keep their cars off the streets so plow trucks can get through.  Other parts of Pennsylvania have seen as much as 108 inches of snow this season.

Not even the South has been immune from the wintry weather, as parts of Mississippi have three inches of snow. And residents of Georgia and South Carolina are still recovering from the massive ice storm that hit on Wednesday.

The weather has been so bad in parts of Georgia that Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry jokingly posted on Facebook that he was canceling Valentine's Day, telling men they "are exempt from having to run out and buy lottery scratchers and Hersey bars from the corner stores" until Tuesday.

(Not everyone found humor in the joke, as officials said a Michigan man called the sheriff's office on Friday to protest the decision.)

The most recent winter storm has also been blamed for 18 deaths, as well as leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power.

So far this winter has broken a number of records in the northern states. The Great Lakes are almost completely frozen over for the first time in about 20 years.  An estimated 89 percent of the Lakes' surface has frozen, and experts say that is expected to grow.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.