I live in what is called the snow belt. We generally get lots of lake effect snow. That’s from cold arctic air sweeping over the yet unfrozen great lakes, then dumping snow, when they hit land again.
Last year, at this time, we’d had 3 straight days of snowfall over 20". In fact we had 3 snow days in a row. Something I’ve never seen before. And that snow, stayed around until spring melt! We saw not an edge of lawn or shrub, all buried.
But this year, the grass is still green. We’ve had a couple of dustings but nothing significant. The sun is shining but it’s cold, about zero, I think.
It did delay my beginning to shop, the mood just wasn’t getting me. Same with the decorations, I kind of had to force myself. But it has helped to get me moving. Definitely affected me.
It’s 50 degrees F here in Fort Myers. This is as close to Christmas as we get. And yes, it does put me in the holiday mood. But it will be a high of 70 so we’ll be back in paradise mode soon enough.
No snow here yet, though it’s cold enough. We almost always have our first snowfall the week of Christmas.
Last year though the snowcover started on Dec. 1. It was such a lovely cozy feeling to be making Christmas preparations with snow on the ground. I’m disappointed that it didn’t happen again this year.
Not that I don’t wish the snow would melt as soon as New Year is over. But you know. Christmas.
I live at the western end of elbows’ “snow belt” and it’s been rainy here and most of November was WARM. I haven’t worn anything heavier than a hoodie sweatshirt yet.
It did snow one day. I forget when.
Right now it’s sunny for the first time in ages and finally in the low 30s (F). My little weather widget has pictures of snow for Friday and Saturday.
Last year we had epic amounts of snow and we’d better get it this year. I have big plans for sledding!!
Does it feel like the holidays? Sort of. I am enjoying everyone’s Christmas lights in the neighborhood but I do think they’d look better against snow.
I also need to get my boots repaired and I keep forgetting to take them in. Argh!
They said we had a chance of snow here last night and I was expecting to see some on the ground when I got up this morning–but no. It was unseasonably warm during November, but has turned nippy the last week or so.
Today it’s been sunny, around 0 C. Yesterday I found out that sleet in combination with a freezing temperature is not a nice thing, especially if the surface you walk on is sloping. Now it’s time to buy ice studs as I don’t want a repeat of what happened two years ago when I slipped and fractured a leg.
It’s been a very warm fall, with just a couple days below the 50s before this week. Yesterday we had a lot of big puffy snowflakes. Today it’s cold and sunny and Christmassy for Kentucky. ALWAYS a green Christmas here … well, a brown dried up one anyway.
“Christmas weather” here is when the rainy season stops in mid-December. The trade winds begin to blow and the sky is blue with just a few clouds.
It’s like that today (which is Mother’s Day in Panama), but the rainy season is supposed to extend into January this year, so real Christmas weather may not have kicked in yet.
Hate, hate, hate. I proably live within 20 miles of JJ and I’m just the opposite. I despise snow.
On Tuesday we learned that 2011 has been Ohio’s wettest year on record and we’re already getting warnings about spring flooding. By this time last year we’d already had three major snowstorms, and one year ago today was the blizzard that shut down Cleveland. I left work at 3:45 and got home just before 8. I remember drinking some cocoa, taking a hot bath and crying myself to sleep.
There’s been one white Christmas here in living memory. Sometimes it’s cold for Christmas, sometimes it’s warm (shorts weather). It was 70 yesterday, today it will be in the mid-50’s. It was cold enough before Thanksgiving to kill the mosquitos, so I guess it’s Christmas.
Temperatures seem to be just a couple of degrees above normal for this time of year. We had a warm November, but today it’s 0 C with a little wind chill of -7 C. Snow flurries are expected, but no real accumulation yet. Montreal has something like a 90+% chance of a white Christmas - I certainly hope so! I can’t wait for it to get cold enough for the outdoor rinks and ponds to freeze…I want to go skating!
I’m not really full of Christmas spirit yet, though my decorations are up. There’s just been some family drama lately that’s been making everything less fun. I hope that can get sorted out soon!
Wunderground is my main choice as well, but I also like the text and support video at http://nashvillewx.com/ to get a good idea of what’s ahead for at least a day or two.
-9ºC here today, after a low of -19ºC last night. We had a snowfall last weekend that is still around, so that looks more Christmasy. We are having a very weird fall here - the weather is like a friggin’ rollercoaster. I know we normally have variable weather here from catching the cold air from the arctic and the windy air from the mountains in the west, but this is extreme even for us.
I wish we lived in the snow belt. It dropped down into the 20’s and 30’s overnight here. Go figure. It seems like we’re on a roller coaster too, like a lot of places.
I will throw out the caveat that I went from going to school for 16 years to working from home for the rest of eternity so there is no reason for me to hate snow when it comes to transportation. If you take that out of the mix well then there’s no reason for me to hate snow at all!
I did throw a bit of a temper tantrum in 1990-something when I had tickets to see the St. Louis Blues play the Hartford Whalers at Richfield Coliseum and was told that it was too snowy for dad to drive us out there. BULLSHIT! I won that battle and saw a great game.
Out in the gulf of mexico, warm and sunny here. Just stepped outside and it was quite warm (I’m only wearing jeans and a t-shirt). Nice and cool in the science lab where I work though!
Surrounded by blue, blue water with no chance of snow. This is the best holiday weather I could hope for. I hate the cold and I hate the snow.
The only bad part is that I don’t get to be with my family or my boyfriend on christmas.
There’s some snow, and it’s about 25 degrees. Feels pretty Christmas-y. I’m still jumpy because the snowpocalypse last year happened somewhere around the 10th of December, so we could still get dumped on sometime in the near future.
