It certainly scared the Aboriginal people in Sydney if contemporary newspaper reports are to be believed. Presumably the colonists, having come from the UK, weren’t so fussed:
My first reaction on reading that was “Holy shit! They got snow in June?” :smack:
I figured out real quick, Rysto, that if I see a reference to seemingly-opposite weather, to check who is posting and where they are from.
Darn Aussies, with your backwards weather! You like messing with our heads, don’t you?
Today was the first time it has snowed since I moved to New York. I am so excited! I wanted to call in sick and play in the snow but it wasn’t sticking so that would have been a waste.
Showers headed this way, and temps around 30ºF. We might get flurries. If we do, it will turn to rain later.
It’s been seven years since we had any significant winter weather here - an ice storm on New Year’s Day 2001. We’re overdue for a little snow.
How 'bout some pictures for your Southern friends to drool over, OP?
Until he gets back with some nature shots, here’s a picture from last year of the beagle after leaping into a drift. He was out for less than a minute though (to his dismay, he loves snow more than I do), so don’t worry.
Ah, I can’t wait for winter to come again.
:: yawns ::
:: stares groggily at that bright yellow thing that wasn’t up in the sky last night when coming back from the airport to greet the Riders at 2 a.m. ::
:: puts on the tea kettle ::
Okay, I’m starting the day. I’m tired, but it’s a good tired. Plus I seem to have chilblains in my hands from waving my flag at the corner of Vic and Albert last night.
Snow seems to have gradually disappeared, I’m afraid. But I’m sure more will be here soon.
Jealous here too…we’ve had frost and I hear tell of snow farther north, but we may not get any anytime soon. 
Good start! Snow and critters makes for good pictures.
This is different from usual?
(All we’ve been getting so far is wet flurries and icy rain–come on! Enough with the half-arsed effort, Mother Nature, I want some real snow!)
My first ski tracks this season were in my yard at 8:20 p.m. on 7 November, but the snow has since melted away.
The lift area where I have a pass has been blowing man-made snow for a few days, so it won’t be long until skiing starts there, but it will take a few natural blows before I can ski over from the ski hill where I live over to the ski hill where I ski.
On the other side of the border in Minnesota, Lutsen is already open, albeit with only one run so far.
As much as I hope for lots of snow, I’d rather that it holds off for a few weeks so that the gound can freeze solidly and deeply before the snow arrives. Perfection would be a copule of weeks of deep freeze follwed by a couple of days of freezing rain ending in a further deep freeze, and only after that a decent snow storm. But I’ll be happy with whatever we get.
You poor misguided soul.
Let’s parse it out for you.
If there is snow, there are snow-bunnies.
If there are snow-bunnies, you will be very happy.
In Toronto, there is no snow, so in Toronto there are no snow-bunnies.
Therefore, you will not be very happy in Toronto.
What is it, about 3 million or so seasonally depressed people in the GTA, while the rest of us north of there have a blast in the winter. Head north, young man, slap on some skiis, and start ski-running with the snow-bunnies.
BTW, in case you hadn’t noticed, snow bunny logic does not recognize fallacies the way formal logic does.
Awww, cute puppy!
And I’m too old to be a snow bunny, never mind if they call me that in the MMP.
The lying weather people keep saying it’ll snow and then it doesn’t. Bastards. Getting my hopes up like that!
Bah. Double Bah.
I move from the area I’ve lived in for 17 years, where never once did we have a full-blown “White Christmas” (frost, if we were lucky).
Then I move to a country which is supposed to be cold and snowy four months a year… and nothing.
And my mother calls me to tell me they have snow.
Make it snoooow!!
Bugger Bugger.
Yay! Woke up to steady snowfall. Not even knowing it was predicted, and not having changed my tires over yet, I took it very slowly. So did almost everyone else, with traffic jams at every town. That small group that every year insists on driving the way they always do was seen in the medians and off in ditches. We got maybe four inches altogether; not a real storm but a good start!
Ooh, we’re supposed to get snow Thursday and Friday, which has me extremely excited. We’ve had one flurry so far this year - and the snow melted off the mountains! I’m not traveling this weekend, so I’m definitely hoping for lots and lots of snow.
That’s one adorable pup.
I’m going to miss snow this year. After spending 25 years of my life in Montreal, where it can take you a full afternoon, with your neighbour’s help, to dig your car out of its parking spot on the street after the plow passes, I don’t know how I’m going to deal with a mostly snowless winter here in Maryland.