# Is it snowy where you are? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736 "2015-12-17T22:29:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/21 "2015-12-18T02:15:23Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > It’s bitter cold and snowy here in Denver. And to think, I came here thinking the climate was better than it was in Chicago! lol Ditto. I saw on the news yesterday we’re over 15" on the season out of our average of 55". So a month in we’re already over a quarter of our way. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/22 "2015-12-18T02:34:31Z")
Near Boston here. Not only is it not snowy, but there are green growing things in my yard and one of my butterfly bushes looks suspiciously like it’s trying to bloom. Temps are expected to bottom out around 30 this weekend, but warm up again next week. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/23 "2015-12-18T02:48:28Z")
Massachusetts. It’s been very spring like. I finished my excavation projects for the year, the weather is tempting me to take another on this year. I know as soon as a do I’ll be stuck waiting from spring to finish, so I wait. Once the frost hits I’ll have plenty of work fixing broken pipes again. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/24 "2015-12-18T03:04:09Z")
Western Idaho here, snowing as I type. predicted weather through the end of the weekend is snow and/or rain with freezing temps at night. Beyond the weekend I have not heard about yet. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/25 "2015-12-18T03:34:34Z")
No. It’s rainy. It hasn’t stopped for days. It’s killing me because the temps are high enough to sneak out for a scooter ride, but the damn rain won’t let up! I’ve lived in the Willamette Valley for 16 years. This is the first year that it’s really getting to me. ---
**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 18, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/26 "2015-12-18T03:41:01Z")
Nope from Ottawa. We basically get the same weather as New England and it’s been glorious this year. The last two winters were impossibly cold and long; we deserve this big time. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/27 "2015-12-18T03:47:44Z")
Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. Plenty of rain, no snow as yet. We get a good dusting every couple of years. The mountains a few dozen miles away are a different story. Average rain and snow pack has been a little slight this year; on average, I think we’re technically still in drought. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/28 "2015-12-18T04:50:41Z")
No snow in the Buffalo area, as the OP said. I haven’t even pulled out the boots and winter coat yet. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/29 "2015-12-18T05:13:30Z")
Fargo, ND. We’ve had two snowstorms, both delivering about three inches. The temperature outside is 10° F, according to Weather Underground, but my thermometer gives 18° F. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/30 "2015-12-18T13:45:19Z")
No snow this year here yet this season in Connecticut, and none forecast for the rest of the year. Average is about 10 inches over November and December. Which is a big bummer, as part of the reason we chose Connecticut as the place to spend my husband’s sabbatical is so my kids would be able to experience a real snowfall. We leave the end of this month to return to CA so it looks like we are out of luck. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/31 "2015-12-18T13:59:26Z")
No snow in Pereira or Medellin Colombia where I’m vacationing for Christmas. No snow back home in Cayman. But there is [snow on the nearby mountains](http://www.parquesnacionales.gov.co/portal/es/ecoturismo/region-andina/parque-nacional-natural-los-nevados/) in [Los Nevados National Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Nevados_National_Natural_Park) in Colombia. ---
**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 18, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/32 "2015-12-18T14:14:03Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Nope from Ottawa. > > We basically get the same weather as New England and it’s been glorious this year. The last two winters were impossibly cold and long; we deserve this big time. Same as Montreal. We have had a few flurries and there is a 40% chance of flurries tomorrow, but no accumulation predicted. For the rest of the 7 day forecast, the termperatures will be above freezing and there will be some rain, but no snow. This is likely to be the second year in the nearly fifty I have been living here with a brown Christmas. IMHO, white Christmas is highly over-rated, although the ski resorts are in trouble. They can make snow, but the above freezing temperatures are a killer. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/33 "2015-12-18T14:14:05Z")
About average snowfall in the central Colorado Mountains. We’ve had about 6-7 feet so far at my house. Skiing should be fine this year. Hopefully no drought problems either, but it’s way too early to tell. March is usually our snowiest month. Winter goes out with a bang. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/34 "2015-12-18T15:52:51Z")
I’m in SE Wyoming, where I-80 has been closed for a huge stretch between Rawlins and Cheyenne for several days now. It’s the high winds and whiteout conditions. We haven’t gotten much mail in the last few days because the trucks can’t get through. Last night I heard there were absolutely no lodging or parking accommodations left in Rawlins. That’s a terrible place to be stuck. I-80 being closed is nothing unique, but it’s unusual for it to last this long. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/35 "2015-12-18T19:20:45Z")
I’m in Georgia, so no snow is to date is not a surprise, but it’s been so warm lately that when I picked up a Christmas snow globe and shook it the flakes just rearranged themselves to spell out “It’s too f\*\*\*ing hot, go away!”. I hear that Santa is shaving the reindeer and putting wheels on his sleigh this year. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/36 "2015-12-18T20:02:32Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > I’m in SE Wyoming, where I-80 has been closed for a huge stretch between Rawlins and Cheyenne for several days now. It’s the high winds and whiteout conditions. We haven’t gotten much mail in the last few days because the trucks can’t get through. Last night I heard there were absolutely no lodging or parking accommodations left in Rawlins. That’s a terrible place to be stuck. > > I-80 being closed is nothing unique, but it’s unusual for it to last this long. US 285 in Colorado shut down for a bit yesterday. Not many people really know what a total white out is. Might as well just shut your eyes. I’m reading an interesting book. Almost Pioneers. Written by Laura Gibson Smith. It’s her manuscript and was edited by a history professor, John J. Fry. It chronicles a married couple that moved from Iowa to Laramie County in 1913. I’m about half way through it and it’s very hard to put down. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/37 "2015-12-18T23:06:38Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > Tucson, AZ, so of course it isn’t snowy, it pretty much never snows around here. But for the last 3 nights we’ve had hard freezes, with lows around 24 and highs in the low 50s, which is [bold]freezing[/bold] by local standards. I’ve been enjoying taunting my Tucson-living parents about the warm, toasty weather we’re having here in Connecticut. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/38 "2015-12-18T23:17:15Z")
I’m in Vail right now. (For work, so not too fun). 6" snow all around on the natural ground, slush & gunk all around the streets & sidewalks. Daily highs in the mid 30s, lows in the low 20s. Flying in, there was decent snow cover on the flats starting from the mountains extending eastwards to about 60 miles east of greater Denver. Then it tapers off pretty quickly to bare dirt across the rest of eastern CO and all of KS that I could see. Back home in Miami there’s no snow. Now there’s a surprise! :smack: But it hasn’t even really started cooling off towards what passes for winter there. We have had a metric buttload of rain throughout Nov & Dec through. Early Nov is normally the start of our four-month dry season and it hasn’t started yet 6 weeks later. It’s already a third over according to the calendar and it hasn’t even begun. Which is about as predicted by the El Nino gurus. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/39 "2015-12-18T23:44:46Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > No snow in the SF Bay Area yet. 🙂 > > Actually, although we rarely get snow in the populated areas, the mountains just minutes away will get snow several times a year. Howdy neighbor. Yup, chilly here but no snow. However last weekend I drove up to Yosemite with a buddy, it’s gorgeous there in the winter (plenty of snow on the ground, actively snowed on our last day) and the park is virtually empty. Did some hiking, winter photography, soaked in a hot tub at the hostel we stayed at and on the way out stopped off so that I could throw on my swim trunks and take a dip in the Merced river. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-snowy-where-you-are/740736/40 "2015-12-19T00:14:34Z")
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