# Um. It's snowing. What? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510 "2008-03-24T06:13:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/21 "2008-03-28T17:06:36Z")
[QUOTE=wolfstu] It basically hasn’t snown all winter here in Holland [/QUOTE] Completely, totally, and utterly off-topic, and inserted only because you say you’re in Holland. I was recently introduced to the phrase “like a five-legged sheep”, and I’m now trying to find out what someone in The Netherlands means when they use it. Enlighten me? [/ returning to subject of thread] ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/22 "2008-03-28T17:18:08Z")
It’s trying valiantly to snow here near Sea-Tac Airport. The rain doesn’t want to give up its turf though. The snow occasionally makes chunky-flaked inroads but the rain keeps beating it back. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/23 "2008-03-28T18:08:32Z")
Well, the snow seems to have won out for the time being, against great odds, but the temperature is about 34 degrees so its not sticking to anything yet. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/24 "2008-03-28T18:12:15Z")
**Tikki,** I’m south of you in Puyallup. It’s snowing gangbusters here and it’s sticking. It’s been snowing since I rolled my ass out of bed nearly an hour ago, so I don’t know if it was snowing beforehand. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/25 "2008-03-28T18:59:33Z")
Huge flakes came down this morning, for a couple hours – and melted instantly… like tears in rain. Totally surreal. March is supposed to go out like a lamb, dammit. Ah, I guess lambs _are_ white and fluffy, and tend not to fly so much as plummet. March. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/26 "2008-03-28T19:39:02Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] Ah, I guess lambs _are_ white and fluffy, and tend not to fly so much as plummet. [/QUOTE] 😃 **Taters,** It’s much thicker now and is just starting to stick to the fence tops and roof of the carport. A squirrel was on my outside shelf under the shelter of the balcony looking none too happy about having to forage for peanuts in this weather. I tossed him some in a dry spot he could get to instead of under the camellia bush like I usually do. Edited to add: Oh, now it’s sticking to both camellias and the azalea and the patio table. Funny, the temperature doesn’t seem to have gone down though. ---
**Author:** ![Marienee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/27 "2008-03-28T21:04:49Z")
[QUOTE=Morgyn] Completely, totally, and utterly off-topic, and inserted only because you say you’re in Holland. I was recently introduced to the phrase “like a five-legged sheep”, and I’m now trying to find out what someone in The Netherlands means when they use it. Enlighten me? [/ returning to subject of thread] [/QUOTE] I have heard “_zoeken een schaap met vijf poten_”, looking for a five legged sheep which means spending a great deal of time/money/energy seeking what does not exist. I have also heard “_een schaap met vijf poten verlangen_”, to want a sheep with five legs, which means something close to avariciousness, wanting more that in reasonable or warranted by the situation. If I had heard “like a five legged sheep” I would conclude that it comes from the same source material (dutch expressions are often oblique references to an original saying/proverb/image) and would assume it meant rare to the point of probable nonexistence, or something you can’t have. But my husband says it means all that plus somebody who really can do/has done what was previously thought to be impossible. So it depends on how they say it, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/28 "2008-03-28T21:36:43Z")
It has been snowing all day just up the road in Nanaimo, and it’s getting heavier. It hasn’t been sticking to the roads, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/29 "2008-03-28T21:42:47Z")
Heavy snowfall in Bellevue and Seattle, but no stickage as far as I can see. I’ve lived in the northwest for a long time, I can’t remember ever seeing snow at this time of year. Am I crazy? ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/30 "2008-03-28T21:50:19Z")
It finally stopped snowing here about an hour or so ago. What did stick is melting fast. It never stuck on the roads, but our grass and gardens were white. I seem to remember it snowing on April 1st, just a few years ago, **Cervaise.** I can’t remember exactly what year it was, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/31 "2008-03-28T21:58:46Z")
Hmm, I’m concluding from this thread that seasons must proceed with more consistency and regularity in North America than they do here. For while snow, especially snow that settles, is becoming something of a novelty, wintry spells can occur any time between November and April inclusive. At this time of year it is quite normal to have mild spring-like weather one week followed by a very cold snap the next week. The way you’re all talking, though, it sounds like once the snow season is over, that’s it, no more is supposed to fall. ---
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/32 "2008-03-28T22:01:14Z")
Still snowing here in the Marysville area…Big Flakes… I about had to drag the pug out to do his business once he saw it was snowing. He is a funny little dog. Both dogs are now hunkered up in front of the fireplace. I think I’m going to make a snowman holding a bouquet of daffodils… Ha ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510/33 "2008-03-28T22:03:14Z")
Snow season??? It is to laugh; we don’t really have a snow season, at least here Western Washington in the Puget Sound area. Our winters usually consist of rain, wind, and the occasional hail storm. I remember white winters with much regularity from the 70s. By the eighties, snow that stuck around was a rare sight. Conditions have to be “just right” for snow to fall and stick around here. That being said, it can snow in the mountains during the summer here. It’s happened to me on a couple of occasions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-its-snowing-what/442510.md?page=1)