# Snow around the World!! How's the weather where you're at? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749 "2010-12-03T02:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/41 "2010-12-03T13:37:54Z")
New England – the weather here’s been pretty pleasant so far this fall. A couple of frosts, some below freezing weather at night, and an isolated flurry or two, but no snow. Not too unusual – the first accumulating snow fall can come anywhere from late October to late December. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/42 "2010-12-03T13:45:34Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > The weather over here is not good. Not good at all. Yeah, like causing [this](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11901937) ☹ \*\*Alessan \*\*-- your folks are in Haifa, right? Hoping they’re all OK! (I have relatives in Haifa **and** in one of the small villages just South of the affected area. We’re preparing in case they need to be evacuated…) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/43 "2010-12-03T14:17:09Z")
I guess about average. I’ve only plowed a few times though, which seems low to me. Ground is completely covered for sure. Breckenridge ski resort has a base of 38" and a Season total of 112"s which is pretty good. ---
**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 3, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/44 "2010-12-03T14:30:02Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Yeah, like causing [this](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11901937) ☹ > > \*\*Alessan \*\*-- your folks are in Haifa, right? Hoping they’re all OK! (I have relatives in Haifa **and** in one of the small villages just South of the affected area. We’re preparing in case they need to be evacuated…) My family lives in Zichron now, which is far enough away (and with a massive firebreak in the form of Route 70 in between). Still, I grew up in Haifa, and went to Haifa U. It hasn’t been an easy 24 hours for us. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/45 "2010-12-03T15:11:56Z")
I’m in Glasgow. We’ve had about a foot or so of snow but nothing compared to other parts of the country. It has played havoc with public transport and for people travelling by car, but for pedestrians like myself it hasn’t caused any issues. Temperatures are hovering between about 0 and -5C. My mother (up in the Highlands) witnessed a combination of snow and a thunderstorm the other day. I’m told it was spectacular and am very jealous I didn’t get to see it. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19adc/32.png) [@I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Am_The_Lorax)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/46 "2010-12-03T19:03:50Z")
I’m in South Buffalo, where our two nearest highways were shut down, people stranded, two snow days for the kids, we’re snowed in completely (3 ft). My mother lives about five miles from here and she’s got “a little dusting”, she says. Now it’s warming up and melting some, which is really bad. It’ll either flood something awful or get cold again and it’ll all be ice. Hubby’s trying to dig out the car before he needs a blowtorch to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/47 "2010-12-03T19:20:33Z")
They’ve just issued an avalanche warning for Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, which is probably a unique occurrence. Here in Perthshire (Scotland) there’s been a couple of feet of snow over the past week, and the temperature has ranged from about 0C to -8C. Not much disruption. It is early in the winter for this kind of weather though, and the amount of snow is unusual at any time. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/48 "2010-12-03T19:21:38Z")
> [@JoseArcadio](#): > > My mother (up in the Highlands) witnessed a combination of snow and a thunderstorm the other day. I’m told it was spectacular and am very jealous I didn’t get to see it. Oooh, I’d love to see/hear that too. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/49 "2010-12-03T19:26:34Z")
72 degrees and sunny. Lovely, really. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/50 "2010-12-03T19:36:47Z")
Anyone from Poland wish to join in the fun? I saw a blurb on the Weather Channel that the intensely cold weather in Poland was responsible for about 10 deaths, regrettably. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/51 "2010-12-03T19:42:00Z")
> [@I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](#): > > I’m in South Buffalo, where our two nearest highways were shut down, people stranded, two snow days for the kids, we’re snowed in completely (3 ft). My mother lives about five miles from here and she’s got “a little dusting”, she says. Now it’s warming up and melting some, which is really bad. It’ll either flood something awful or get cold again and it’ll all be ice. Hubby’s trying to dig out the car before he needs a blowtorch to do it. my brother was stuck in it for 9 hours - his boss sent him with a tire to rescue one of their trucks that blew a tire - and my brother hates leaving the little area around Caledonia/Avon/Batavia with the burning hatred of a thousand suns. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/52 "2010-12-03T20:45:23Z")
> [@JoseArcadio](#): > > My mother (up in the Highlands) witnessed a combination of snow and a thunderstorm the other day. I’m told it was spectacular and am very jealous I didn’t get to see it. I was woken in the dead of night by such a combination in Arlington, Virginia, years ago. It is, and you should be. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/53 "2010-12-03T23:26:03Z")
69° F in Denver today. Ties the all-time record high for the day set in 1885. ---
**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 3, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/54 "2010-12-03T23:56:50Z")
[The day it snowed in Thailand](http://2bangkok.com/news04o.shtml). About 4/5 of the page down, second photo from the bottom. 6pm on January 8, 1955. Chiang Rai province, far in the Upper North. There are some pretty high elevations there. When I lived at a high elevation in the North myself, it did sometimes reach freezing at night in December and January, only to heat back up during the day. I recall hearing that people one in Loei province, in the Northeast and bordering Laos, saw a few flakes on a mountain, but they did not make it to the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/55 "2010-12-04T00:08:54Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Oooh, I’d love to see/hear that too. 🆒 Me too. Snow thunderstorms are extremely rare here (I think I’ve experienced one in 44 years). Someone was saying something recently about not understanding the mentality of people who live in cold, snowy places, and I think I can explain it now - when you live someplace where it gets really crappy half the year, it’s a known evil - we’re all prepared for it, we have whole systems set up to deal with it, and we have very few unexpected weather problems. Plus, very little vermin or bugs. 😃 ---
**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 4, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/56 "2010-12-04T00:10:58Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Plus, very little vermin or bugs. 😃 Tiny bugs are better than large ones? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/57 "2010-12-04T06:02:49Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Tiny bugs are better than large ones? Well, yeah. 🙂 ---
**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 4, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/58 "2010-12-04T06:23:33Z")
I’ve got about a foot of snow in my yard; it started snowing in mid-October and has been doing so, on and off, ever since. The Piper Cub’s Hallowe’en required him to be well-layered. Tomorrow, I have to get that snow-blower working to clear out the driveway. However, it’s really put me in the mood for Christmas, as all the local spruce trees have good coverings of snow. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/59 "2010-12-04T13:29:52Z")
This morning there are inches of snow on the ground. Crap. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749/60 "2010-12-04T13:48:24Z")
Southern Maine. We got a light dusting of snow this morning, and might get more later and tomorrow, according to those who know these things. This is my first northern winter, I’m pretty excited. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-around-the-world-hows-the-weather-where-youre-at/562749.md?page=4)