# Is anyone expecting a white Christmas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752 "2014-12-20T17:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/21 "2014-12-21T14:26:19Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > If I didn’t have to earn a living, I wouldn’t mind being stranded for a few weeks at [Mt. Bohemia](http://vimeo.com/90403207) at the top of that pointy-sticky-outie-thingie in the middle of Gitchigumi. Da UP’s UP in da winter is da bomb! Great video! I think I could be very happy living in the UP. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/22 "2014-12-21T14:32:28Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I spent an evening earlier this week plowing out Drunk Wally next door. He has a farm tractor with a huge snow thrower connected to its driveline, but he’s seldom in any shape to get behind the wheel industrial equipment that has great nashy auger, and I have no idea how to use a tractor, so I stole my other neighbour’s riding mower that has a blower attached. If Drunk Wally’s elderly dad wasn’t such a nice guy (Drunk Wally is in his fifties and won’t leave the nest), I’d let Drunk Wally figure out a solution for himself (so far the best he has been able to do is post a No Trespassing sign on his door, which doesn’t really help clear the drive – not that anyone without skis or snowshoes could get in as far as the house anyway), but I don’t want the old guy to worry about getting stranded they way they did last winter, when they called out for help. That time it took myself on the hijacked lawn tractor/blower and a fellow from the next concession road over on his ATV/plow about four hours to dig them out. So yeh, we’s gots snow for Christmas. (And it’s time to put on the togs to go skiing – there’s a lift area at the other side of the concession block – the next road over, and a cross-country area at the opposite corner of the concession block. Doing a bit of both today.) Where are you? Very good of you to help out. In the last two years I replaced my plow truck and tractor with newer equipment. It’s soooo nice now to have reliable stuff. Sucks having to jump start plow trucks, and knowing that the diesel tractor simply will not start when it’s cold. I now have a 2004 shortbed Dodge chained up on all 4 with a new plow on it. And a brand new Kabota tractor/loader. Yes, I’m bragging a bit. I went a bit all out on this, including a winch on the rear of the plow truck. It comes in very, very handy. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/23 "2014-12-21T14:38:03Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Where are you? In the bush on the edge of Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the North Shore of Lake Superior opposite Michigan’s Upper Penninsula’s Keweenaw Peninsula, and at the northern end of the New Orlean’s Highway 61 after it passes through Minnesota. Leavin’ to ski now! Love winter! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/24 "2014-12-21T15:53:24Z")
Weather Channel is currently predicting 66°, three degrees shy of the 81-year-old record, with a thunderstorm Christmas Eve. That’s ten degrees warmer than where I will be on the Texas Gulf Coast. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/25 "2014-12-21T15:55:16Z")
rain changing to show Christmas Eve – so its kinda a coin flip. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/26 "2014-12-21T18:09:31Z")
It’s predicted to be mid-50’s and gloomy in New England. But enough about me – it will also be raining heavily. Mild weather is supposed to persist through the rest of the year, probably. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/27 "2014-12-21T18:10:44Z")
It looks like it will be too warm here in Chicago. I’m one of those who wishes for snow this time of year. If it is going to be cold, I want the white stuff on the ground. This morning, I was poking around my dead, dead yard. Everything is so ugly in shades of brown and gray. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/28 "2014-12-21T23:11:08Z")
In Montreal, it is almost always white this time of year. Current temperature -8C, high tomorrow -6C. But they are predicting +3, +5, +5 with rain for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Christmas Day and the current snow cover is rather thin. I imagine the streets will be clear, but the lawns will still be white. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/29 "2014-12-22T01:01:04Z")
In all my years living in Saskatchewan, I can only remember one (1) brown Christmas, back in '97. This year, snow settled in around mid-November, as usual, and likely won’t leave until mid-April at the earliest, so yes, White Christmas. (Except I won’t be here to see it, as Clan Piper is heading south for Christmas. :)) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/30 "2014-12-22T01:32:15Z")
We’ll have “light” snow Thursday. That could be anything from nonexistent to a foot. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/31 "2014-12-22T07:42:43Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > What’s northern England like about now? We have a niece studying in York. It’s her first time to see Christmas in a Western country. No clue, personally, I’m afraid – but here’s the BBC forecast for York for the next five days > **[York - BBC Weather](https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2633352)** > > 14-day weather forecast for York. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/32 "2014-12-22T13:19:25Z")
It looks like it’s going to be raining here right up until Christmas Eve, then 50-ish and sunny on actual Christmas day. Any other time in winter, that might be nice, but it sounds dreary for the holiday. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/33 "2014-12-22T14:43:41Z")
Seems unlikely in the Detroit area. The low temperatures are supposed to be above freezing (albeit just barely) for the next week. Around here, we seem to have a roughly 50% chance of having snow on the ground on Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/34 "2014-12-22T14:56:59Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > In Montreal, it is almost always white this time of year. Current temperature -8C, high tomorrow -6C. But they are predicting +3, +5, +5 with rain for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Christmas Day and the current snow cover is rather thin. I imagine the streets will be clear, but the lawns will still be white. Pretty much the same forecast in Ottawa. I only recall one brown Christmas in the 25 years I’ve lived in this area; this could be the second. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/35 "2014-12-22T15:09:54Z")
22 inches of heavy snow yesterday afternoon and last night. My Wife was first to leave and made it out (Grand Jeep Cherokee). I rarely plow in the morning. But decided that I had better get a leg up on it. Sooo, I tried to move my Pathfinder (brand new snowtires), and it’s a bit stuck. My Wifes Jeep has a little bit more ground clearance than the Pathfinder, and pushed and packed down the snow. My lower ground clearance hit the packed heavy snow, and that was that. So, off to the plow truck. Oye. HEAVY snow. Going to have to winch out the Pathfinder. I’m staying home from work and deal with this today. I have a Kubota tractor, and will move the heaviest of it with that, and then tackle it with the plow. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/36 "2014-12-22T16:44:42Z")
Glanced at the weather earlier–I think it called for a “dusting”. The temperature seemed a bit too high for that, but who knows. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/37 "2014-12-22T18:21:46Z")
66F and Sunny in LA. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/38 "2014-12-22T20:52:13Z")
We usually have a white Christmas here in the frozen north. We do have snow on the ground at the moment, but warm temperatures plus rain are forecast for the next few days, so, unusually, the weatherfolks are predicting a green Christmas this year, probably only the third one I remember having. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/39 "2014-12-22T21:56:52Z")
We Mainers can usually promise it, but not this year. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752/40 "2014-12-23T03:36:07Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > No clue, personally, I’m afraid – but here’s the BBC forecast for York for the next five days > > [York - BBC Weather](http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2633352) [Christmas in York](http://www.visityork.org/christmas.aspx) looks nice. Hope the niece is having a good break. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-expecting-a-white-christmas/707752.md?page=3)