# Did you have a white Christmas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 26, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663 "2006-12-26T21:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/41 "2006-12-27T16:34:28Z")
Nope. Temperatures were below freezing; many days when driving out of town I’d see the morning frost on the fields. But no snow. The Swiss are NOT happy campers, this year. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/42 "2006-12-27T16:39:51Z")
Manitoba, and it’s always a white Christmas. Always… ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/43 "2006-12-28T00:08:17Z")
It’s a couple days late but it’s snowing pretty good out there right now. I just shoveled the sidewalk and I’ll have another run at it before bed to keep it manageable. You can be sure the idiots will be out in full force on the roads tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/44 "2006-12-29T21:26:05Z")
Isn’t it funny how people always forget to drive in snow, when snow shows up after being gone? Like, ‘OH MY GOSH IT’S ALIEN’ or something. Even in places where there’s always snow. Except Yellowknife. Man, those people are good snow drivers. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/45 "2006-12-29T22:06:49Z")
Well, yes and no. My hometown (120 miles NE of Denver) is buried under two feet of the stuff, and I had to look at 100 acres of the crap for 10 hours before our plane finally took off from DIA on the 22nd. But my wife and I actually spent Christmas in North Carolina – coolish, rainy, but no snow. And then, of course, we came back to another blizzard. So kinda’, yeah, but not really, no. ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/46 "2006-12-30T00:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Like, ‘OH MY GOSH IT’S ALIEN’ or something. [/QUOTE] One day it will be mashed potatoes and then _we’ll_ be the ones who look stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/47 "2006-12-30T00:59:09Z")
And we’re supposed to have… wait for it… _heavy rain_ for New Year’s. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/48 "2006-12-30T02:19:03Z")
Welcome to my world, honey. Rain, rain, rain through most of the late autumn. Makes me homesick - for spring. Spring here is Alberta summer, only humid. I live in a very stupid place. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/49 "2006-12-30T02:19:49Z")
Near DC; some rain, not much. Not even close to any snow; this is the warmest winter I’ve ever seen here. I’ve needed an actual coat perhaps five days so far, and this is keeping in mind that I walk ~half a mile from my car to my school at 7:45-8:00 in the morning every weekday, and 3:50-4:00 in the afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/50 "2006-12-30T07:01:11Z")
The only snow I saw in Milwaukee were ten-foot mounds covering one end of a shopping mall parking lot. I was tempted to shovel a truck-load into a pickup and scatter it all over our front yard. Just to make the neighbors wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/51 "2006-12-30T07:05:51Z")
. . . meanwhile, [it snowed in Jerusalem](http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTgyMzImbnI9MQ_3_3,00.html). :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/52 "2006-12-30T09:51:22Z")
Yes. Yes we did. And I would like to apply for the title of “worlds most freakish white Christmas”. Check the location - it’s the _middle of freaking summer here, people!_ (full disclosure - the white was made up of hail, not snow, and it only lasted about half an hour before the rain washed it away. Still … summer, guys, summer!) ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/53 "2006-12-30T22:18:50Z")
No sNow in FresNo. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/54 "2006-12-31T00:21:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] And we’re supposed to have… wait for it… _heavy rain_ for New Year’s. ☹ [/QUOTE] They’ve downgraded (or upgraded, depending on your point of view) the forecast to ‘_light_ rain’. And a high of 8C. Highs above freezing all next week, too. Sigh. It could be worse. I was just talking to someone who was talking to a northerner, who said that the buildings in Yellowknife are shifting and sinking in the mud because the permafrost is melting. When I build, it’s going to be on _bedrock_. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/55 "2006-12-31T01:10:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] They’ve downgraded (or upgraded, depending on your point of view) the forecast to ‘_light_ rain’. And a high of 8C. Highs above freezing all next week, too. Sigh. It could be worse. I was just talking to someone who was talking to a northerner, who said that the buildings in Yellowknife are shifting and sinking in the mud because the permafrost is melting. When I build, it’s going to be on _bedrock_. [/QUOTE] And that’s why you should move to Yellowknife. My house was on bedrock. And since the permafrost is melting, it’ll be a balmy -30c instead of -40c all the time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/56 "2006-12-31T01:25:14Z")
Yeah. I think we’ve got about a foot and a half or so on the ground now. It’s been snowing on and off for a week or so. It’s normal for us (Anchorage, Alaska). But we did have one year where all we had were super cold temps and hoar frost all the way up to Christmas Eve (day of). THAT was unusual. But it did finally start snowing sometime on Christmas Eve day. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/57 "2006-12-31T17:32:26Z")
Hoar frost is my favourite. My sister sent some pictures which she took on her island (she lives on an island in the middle of a lake 10 miles outside of Yellowknife, because she is insane). I miss it. Rainy New Year for us… it’s supposed to be 47F and rain overnight, going up to 64 tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/58 "2007-01-01T10:29:22Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Hoar frost is my favourite. My sister sent some pictures which she took on her island (she lives on an island in the middle of a lake 10 miles outside of Yellowknife, because she is insane). I miss it. Rainy New Year for us… it’s supposed to be 47F and rain overnight, going up to 64 tomorrow. [/QUOTE] It is very pretty, if cold outside during hoar frost conditions. My favorite is when the frost-fuzzed trees are highlighted against the backdrop of the darkening afternoon sky (sun is still starting to go down at around 3:30 or so here, though now that it’s past 12/21 we’re slowly gaining daylight). The color of the sky at the right temp is a really pretty electric blue. With those white tree branches all lacy against that blue? Wow. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663/59 "2007-01-01T15:39:07Z")
Almost makes me wish I were still living there. Then I remember the isolation and gas prices and grocrery costs and what forty below actually _feels_ like, and I snap out of it. Although, I will be taking my husband up there during the winter at some point, so that he can see the Aurora. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-a-white-christmas/385663.md?page=2)