I had a distant relative who had grown up in Cuba. When he came up here, he saw snow for the first time. He wanted to fill a cardboard carton with some and send it back home.
Some people will ski the crater. Our volcano tour guide said he was a proud member of the University of Hawaii Hilo Intermural Ski team. (Personally, I think what must be a walk up that crater to ski down is way too much work, but to say you’ve done it, it might be worth the walk).
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, California (in the mountains)
Thanks for the link … I’m always looking for new sources of info on the Big Island.www.bigislandhikes.com is my favorite to date, but the more the better.
Positively: TN, CA, MI, ND, SD, AK
Probably: IL, IN, MN
Possibly: NC, VA
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Vermont
I’m going to go out on a limb and name Liechtenstein and Austria, but like Switzerland it would have been seeing it on mountaintops at a distance.
How could I forget MA? I was in charge of plowing the runways at the naval station there!
Ar, mo, ia, wi, il, oh, pa, nj, ny, ma, de, md, mi, in, wv, co, ks, vt, nh
Wow so much snow. Clearly climate change is fake.
Carl Sagan and other scientists have detailed very well how with climate change, you get extremes at both ends – hotter summers, colder winters. That’s why “global warming,” which I suspect is what you’re thinking of, is such a misnomer.
Besides, no one here’s said how much snow they’ve seen. Just snow.
NV, CA (in San Francisco!), MN, VA, MD, TX, OK, CO, NY, IL, DC (a pseudo-state), and PA.
IL (more than I care to remember), CO, AK, and WA if seeing the snow-capped Mount Baker from Grouse Mountain in Vancouver BC counts.
Iowa, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, Missouri, Hawaii, Illinois, Colorado, Kansas.
Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Colorado, Washington, Mississippi, Wyoming
- I knew it’d be a short list - what a fun little exercise.
US: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri, Wyoming, New York, Massachusetts.
Elsewhere: Germany, Austria, Australia (barely), New Zealand, Japan (also barely).
I thought I loved snow, then I went to basic training in Missouri in February and learned that I do not.
Definite: Ohio (grew up there); Virginia (attended college there); Indiana (live there now); Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York (car and bus trips – one of the latter also featured sightings in Ontario and Quebec).
Possible: Vermont, Delaware, Maryland (Amtrak ride in January that also passed through DC); Michigan (don’t remember if there was snow on the ground during trips to college basketball games there); Kentucky, Tennessee (a drive through a bad cold-weather storm during which snow may have fallen)
Close but no cigar: Florida (a January trip during which I experienced freezing temperatures and saw ice on trees, but no snow)
So at least six (and up to twelve) states, plus two Canadian provinces.
13, possibly 16:
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri (thanks to a snowstorm during a business trip, as well as the next state)
Kansas
Colorado
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Wyoming *
Hawaii *
Washington *
(* - if seeing snow up on mountains counts – did not actually have snow fall on my head there)
That’s a whooshing. 