This planet is seriously messed up…
No, you’re not dreaming … it’s a white Christmas (The Age, Melbourne)
It has happened before, but it’s still weird…
On the one hand, this is neat, but on the other hand, it irritates me that the “White Christmas” has become the standard the world over.
Well, it may no longer be in some parts of the world that might reasonably expect one. We’ve had not just a green Christmas, but a green Christmas after exactly one snowfall, at the beginning of December, that stuck around maybe two days. It was +3 Celsius, in Montreal, in late December.
In Quebec City, they had their first white Christmas as far back as anyone can remember; in Toronto, the chance of a white Christmas has apparently dropped from 66% to 33%.
It’s scary. 
(Bolding mine)
I assume you mean green. We also had a green Christmas here (Gatineau/Ottawa), the first one for as long as I can remember. It started snowing an hour or so ago, I don’t know if it will accumulate.
I’ve been wishing for a green Christmas for a few years now. My father and I have been singing “I’m dreaming of a green Christmas / Just like the ones I’ve never known.” 
I’ve finally had my wish, but most people around here want a white Christmas, so I won’t wish for another one. I’m sure temperatures will eventually go back to normal anyway.
No snow, but it was certainly quite chilly on Christmas morning in Canberra. Lovely. 
Memo
To: Australia
From: Canada
Re: Availability Of Snow During The Holiday Season
It has come to our attention that portions of Australia have enjoyed a White Christmas during what is normally their summer season. Meanwhile, portions of Canada have had no snow during Christmas, at a time when this is normal and expected.
This is an injustice and cannot be borne. Please take steps to remedy this situation as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
About 10 million Southern Ontarians and Southern Quebecers.
That’s no good. We need to take back what’s rightfully ours…
Time to break out the ninja mooses.
If anyone needs any evidence that the world is messed up, this is it. Australia, known for its year-round high temperatures, especially at this time of year which, for them, would be somewhere around the spring/summer nexus, gets a white Christmas, and Toronto, known for its snow for 4-6 months of the year, doesn’t.
Someone’s gone and messed up, and that someone is had better have a damn good explanation if they want to avoid having their ass fired.
The memo was just a shot across the bow.
And the catapults. We need to get them there…
Australia is a big country. There are not “year round high temperatures” everwhere. The snow that fell on Christmas Day was geographically isolated to small areas within the Alpine district of NSW/VIC and Mount Wellington in Hobart. These are all areas that have seen summer snowfalls plenty of times before.
Apropos of nothing…
I lived in the shadow of Mt. Taylor for five years and we got a snowfall once. It was gone by noon.
Well, at least we had a white Boxing Day. On Christmas Eve, though, we were driving from my husband’s parents house to mine, and I have to say I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sky so clear - you could see so many stars! It was really pretty amazing… if you ignored the green grass!
Y’see, this is why southern Ontario and Quebec gets a bad rap in the rest of Canada–you folks only think of yourselves. We in Calgary had a brown Christmas: nothing’s green, and nothing white is covering it. Not that anybody’d know or care about the Canadian west the way you folks go on–it’s always “me, me, me,” or “moi, moi, moi.” C’mon, Ontario and Quebec, spare the rest of the country a thought from time to time, eh? We like white Christmases just as much as you do. Yeesh…
Seriously, Sunspace, hope you and all the Ontario and Quebec Dopers had a good one! And truth be told, we seem to be having a helluva winter storm today, a couple of days later.
(Bolding mine) …and you Westerners say we never do anything for you.
Hope you had a good one too, O Nearer To The Snow People.
Yeah, the places up north where you really do get year round high temperatures, are still getting high temperatures. While you chaps in the south east were snuggled up in ugg-boots and multiple layers of long johns and jerseys, we in the north west were sweltering (or, more accurately, racking up huge power bills with our air conditioners.)
Well there’s yer problem! Y’all got your north-south/hot-cold circuits wired backwards! No wonder everthang works funny!
Tris