I’m very pleased to report that the Twin Cities had a lovely brown Christmas. None of that nasty, ugly, cold, slippery, dangerous, time-robbing, space-shrinking, life-ruining snow–although some of the northern suburbs may have had an inch or two.
Alas, the weather report is talking about a rainy/snowy weekend. All good things must come to an end.
Nope. White Christmases are pretty rare in England anyway, and in recent years exceptionally so. Month after month has been breaking records for high temperatures in the UK, and we are stuck in another horribly mild winter. I crave snow…
I’m in the northern part of central Scotland and we’ve only had one overnight frost this winter so far. I’ve got some hills that rise to over 2000 feet within walking distance of my house, and there has only been snow on the tops for one day (after a storm) this winter. This is very unusual at 56 and change degrees North. Admittedly some of the higher hills in the distance have white caps, but they are usually covered comprehensively at this time of year. Still, we’ve got plenty of spare water if anyone wants any.
Canada. No snow. Not a flake.
Canada’s pretty big, pal. Want to help us out and be a teensy bit more specific?
Montreal had a grey snowless Christmas this year, but Boxing Day started off white and fluffy. It’s melting now, and probably won’t last through tomorrow, but it’s nice to see the snow while I’m still feeling Christmassy.
It was quite warm and sunny that day indeed. I don’t recall a white Christmas here, ever.
It’ll be your last one for awhile, my dear. It’s 15c here today. I’ve had my share of shitty winters, so I’m not complaining too much, but it’s still bad and wrong.
White, white, white. We’ve had as more snow before Christmas than I can remember in Saskatoon. Much more than the south of the province has had. There’s only been one non-white Christmas here in my lifetime.
Not a scrap of snow in Toronto. Green (as in actually growing) grass in places as well. We had one weekend of a dusting of snow, and maybe a week of cold lower than -10C.
Everyone I’ve talked to is starting to get creeped out by the whole thing. Walking around in fall jackets and office shoes, and riding bicycles in shorts, in December in Southern Ontario is cute once, but for three years in a row?
Boy, did we ever. Two feet plus another inch or so on xmas eve. Apparently Denver is the only place in the country that had one.
And the folks stuck in the airport rioted when “White Christmas” played over the intercom…
(just kiddin’ with that second paragraph)
I had a wet and muddy Christmas. We were all at my parents’ farm outside Wynne, Arkanas. It never rained hard, but it never really stopped raining either. It’s hard to get a weather report, but I did hear that one city about 20 miles away had gotten about 2 inches of rain. It wouldn’t surprise me. Because I’m easily influenced by my family, I found myself freezing my ass off walking down a gravel road into a strong NW wind blowing rain into my face. It was supposed to get us ready for dinner. We all made it back alive, so I guess it worked.
-Lil
We had a grey overcast Christmas in Santa Rosa, just like we almost always have a grey Christmas. Except some years back, when it was warm and sunny on Christmas; up in the 80s. That was weird.
Oslo, Norway: not unless you count a little frost. Which I wouldn’t.
We had hail in Melbourne Australia - and a high of 16 deg C. Still, it put out the bushfires, so can’t begrudge the weather.
It started snowing last Wed and by Thursday we got a whopping 31.5 inches. But for a city that averages almost 30 feet of snow a year it wasn’t unusual.
You gotta love snow to live in Valdez, Alaska.
Upper 50s and rainy. I think DC has seen its last white Christmas.
Toronto. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I needed to be more specific. I was told when I moved here that Toronto was the centre of the universe. You mean it isn’t? They lied to me? :smack:
We had some crusty stuff still on the ground, and by the end of the day it was snowing some, so technically it was a white Christmas. But given that the usual Christmas involves at least a foot or two of snow, I don’t count it as a white Christmas.
This is the worst Christmas for snow that any of us can remember, including my 70-something parents who’ve lived here their whole lives.
You bet. Spent the weekend in Denver, and then came home on Christmas morning.
We live waaayyy up in the mountains, so we always have a white Christmas. We’ve had white 4th of Julys too.
No white here. We did get some rain/ice a few days before Christmas though and the trees were really pretty on Saturday when we were driving to my aunt’s. More rain/ice expected later this week.
A brown Christmas used to be pretty unusual here in Minnesota but in the past few years we haven’t had much snow. It’s been pretty dry before Christmas recently with more snow in January/February/March. Last year we had snow earlier in October/November IIRC but it had melted by Christmas.