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.
Manitoba, and it’s always a white Christmas. Always…
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.
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.
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.
One day it will be mashed potatoes and then we’ll be the ones who look stupid.
And we’re supposed to have… wait for it… heavy rain for New Year’s. 
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.
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.
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.
. . . meanwhile, it snowed in Jerusalem. :dubious:
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!)
No sNow in FresNo.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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.
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.