It's a good thing that we like snow!

[Stoff]

Here in coastal North Carolina, USA, we rarely get snow. That is not to say that we do not get bitter cold but, the way it usually works here is that it get very dry then very cold then it warms up and rains (any where from 1-4 inches) then it turns bitter again and all the water from the rain freezes. Rinse and repeat. It is just as well that we don't get much snow because the people here simply lose their mind if there is any snow, even if it melts on contact with the earth. They seem to think that it is the dawning of the new ice age.

Stoff

[Pleater]

Snow is pretty rare here - last time there was a lot of snow over almost the whole country there was a satellite picture which showed Britain looking like an iced biscuit - with us at the bottom edge as a tiny bit that got missed out.

It does get fairly cold - there are scraping frost off the car mornings - but they are rather early this year, so there is hope for a bit of snow.
I make snow Ruperts - remember Rupert the Bear? I used to get an annual at Christmas in the mid 1950s. Since moving to Poole, however I also make - if there is enough of a fall, a couple of dinosnows in front of the house - which faces North and so they last for ages if pressed hard enough to alter the snow to ice.

It must be fairly cold - I've brought out my big jumper.

[Katia]

Tomorrow we're supposed to get downright cold for a few days...going as low as 26(C) by next Thursday! Otherwise the past few days have hovered steady at 33 (or so the weather forecast told me; not sure what the actual temp was). We even had unseasonable rain two days in a row last week. So far this winter strikes me as cooler than last year.

No, I do not in any way, shape, or form miss snow!

[Father Bill]

In Michigan, may I assume you mean Fahrenheit?

It's still coming down. I just came in from clearing the laneway for about the sixth time since it started.

[Taskr]

Our Victoria/Vancouver region, a place we Cdn prairie folk go to escape the winter weather, is getting more snow this morning than we have on the ground - most having melted away the past week.

[Steve Ashton]

Hey, speak for yourself. Some places on Vancouver Island did have snow but Victoria has rain. (Rain is bad enough. We are actually dryer than Miami so we have to post reminders of proper umbrella etiquette in the newspapers.)

The Victoria City council voted and it is illegal for it to snow within the city limits. We have but one snow plow, but the guy who knows how to drive it vacations in Florida.

So you people can keep that white stuff. It interferes with our tea sipping at sidewalk cafes.

[Taskr]

I did say "region"

[ThistleDown]

Here, overlooking the Salish Sea in British Columbia, we began the day with big flakes of white. Now, in the early afternoon, it has mostly melted away and we have just a light rainfall. Temperature is 3C. Coastal living

[tpa]

The Victoria City council voted and it is illegal for it to snow within the city limits. We have but one snow plow, but the guy who knows how to drive it vacations in Florida.

Does he vacation in the winter? That would be the sensible solution.

[Father Bill]

It's melting!