ellemkay
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Post by ellemkay on Jan 1, 2024 18:57:05 GMT
Eastern SC so the answer is almost never. I think the last time it snowed on Christmas here was in 1989. More typical is 70s and shorts. Makes it hard to feel like Christmas when you're sweating and swatting mosquitoes!
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 1, 2024 18:57:39 GMT
I voted no since we haven't had a snowfall for a week or two, but we've had five this fall/winter, so I'm good. This weekend we drove to the San Isabel National Forest and their trails were all snow covered. Some of the roads were also snow packed. I feel like I can see snow until July around here on top of Pike's Peak. Today we walked a local nature center for about 3 hours and there was very little snow left in area there. We've got some weird weather patterns around the mountains, that is for sure.
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Post by mcjunkin on Jan 1, 2024 19:00:03 GMT
Upstate SC, so nope. Only once in my lifetime, and that was the Christmas DS got a motorcycle. It was pretty coming down for a few minutes, then was a wet muddy muck. Needless to say, DS was not thrilled at the weather.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jan 1, 2024 20:56:33 GMT
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TXMary
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Post by TXMary on Jan 1, 2024 21:17:25 GMT
Very, very slim chance of that here in Central Texas. I think the last time it snowed on Christmas Day here was 2012. I would be surprised if it ever did again.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jan 1, 2024 22:18:59 GMT
Wow. 95% (so far) had no snow at Christmas. I was expecting far more people to have had snow. Is that because it's getting warmer, or that Christmas 2023 was unseasonably warm, or just that the people answering don't live in snowy areas I wonder?
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Post by mimima on Jan 1, 2024 22:34:41 GMT
We have had White Christmases before, last year was icy and frigid. This year, it has only been icy in the morning once or twice.
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mamallama
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Post by mamallama on Jan 1, 2024 23:29:10 GMT
Southern Idaho and we did not have snow for Christmas but did get some the next day that stuck around for a few days. Not a ton though.
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Post by Zee on Jan 1, 2024 23:33:56 GMT
In the 5 years I've been here it's only snowed twice, and neither were on Christmas. I'm in North Georgia.
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Post by frankiegirl on Jan 2, 2024 0:02:37 GMT
Nope. Northeast Ohio and we were at 60 degrees on Christmas Day. Sunny and beautiful. We had the windows open. That is not usual for us and it was kind of disappointing.
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Post by Lexica on Jan 2, 2024 1:59:19 GMT
Very very rare for coastal So Cal to get snow. So, no white Christmas here. One year we had a nice layer of ice that stuck around for about 30 minutes. The hail sounded like it was going to put holes in the roof. That is the closest to “snow” we’ve had in this area. I had lived in coastal California all of my 68 years prior to the move to Oregon last year. There were two bizarre weather experiences in all of those years, both occurring while I lived in Lake Forest, which is in Orange County. The first was a terrific hailstorm. The hail was only pea-sized and smaller so all the kids in the neighborhood thought it was snow. Many of those kids had never seen real snow, so they had no idea it was hail. My son was about 3 years old, but I had taken him to the mountains where there was real snow, so he was one of the few kids who knew it wasn’t snow. But since he had never heard of hail, he still didn’t know what he was seeing. The kids played outside in it for hours having a blast with it anyway. The second bizarre experience was a tornado hitting the city. I think it was the first and last time that ever happened in that area. I just looked it up. It was in 1993. It picked up a woman, carried her 75 feet in the air, and tossed her to the other side of the street. I read that the swath was a mile and a half wide. Another family was eating dinner and had just brought their newborn into the dining room with them from his crib in his bedroom. That bedroom was hit hard, ripping the corner off the house completely. The baby’s crib was crushed from branches from the tree in their yard as well as the roof parts that came off. The wife said when they heard the baby wake from his nap right before the tornado hit, she was so exhausted she told her husband to just leave him in there until they finished dinner. He didn’t want to do that so he went and brought the baby to the table with him. It was a darned good thing that he did! The baby was safe in a carrier on the table instead of under that debris in the crib when their house was hit. I lost roof tiles and the fences on both sides of my yard with the exception of the block walls out front. I had other people’s patio furniture in my pool. It had been raining hard for several days preceding the tornado and my house shook so hard that a bank of cabinets fell off the wall in the garage and onto my car. The adjuster thought the rains had gotten the walls just damp enough so that the nails holding the cabinets to the studs were able to shake out of the damp wood. One of those cabinets had multiple bottles of hard liquor in it from when my ex lived there. I had told him to come and take them, but he never did so I moved them to the garage since I didn’t drink and wanted the kitchen cabinet for other things. In the end, I was able to take a picture of all of the broken bottle labels to the liquor store for a value check. I was reimbursed for all of it. It was several hundred hundred dollars worth! This happened around the time my son was diagnosed with cancer and my ex had stopped paying child support. We really needed that money! I was so happy that something that my ex didn’t do actually benefited us.
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Post by FrozenPea on Jan 2, 2024 7:12:07 GMT
This was my first Christmas in 42 years with no snow! We moved to Washington state from Alaska. It's really been strange to think that this is winter. We are so confused as to what season it is. Lol. Feels like spring/summer.
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Post by Jamie on Jan 2, 2024 13:32:56 GMT
Nope - we did get about 3/4" finally Saturday night. We've had just over 5" this year and half of that came in October. Nothing currently showing in the forecast for the next 10 days either.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jan 2, 2024 14:03:23 GMT
We did have a lot of rain, which is unusual. Yesterday someone told me that if it had been a little colder we would have gotten 36” of snow.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Jan 2, 2024 14:07:33 GMT
I haven't broken my streak of 55 years of non-white Christmases yet. I've always lived in the south and the last 30+ years on GA. We did have snow that started kinda late on Christmas night one year, but I don't consider that a white Christmas.
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Post by workingclassdog on Jan 2, 2024 14:10:04 GMT
Colorado here.. which you would think a yes, but a no.. at least in Denver area.. mountains probably had some.. but I really don't know.
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Post by seaexplore on Jan 2, 2024 16:28:47 GMT
I’m in Central CA- no snow here.
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Post by essiejean on Jan 2, 2024 17:00:38 GMT
We did not get snow in the Black Hills of SD until the day after Christmas. And of course it was sub-zero with blizzard type winds. Didn't shut everyone down but most business (ours included) had a late start for the day and shut down early for the evening. By the next day is was pretty cleared up.
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Post by femalebusiness on Jan 2, 2024 17:42:36 GMT
I have never had a white Christmas. I am a southern California gal, born and raised. I have no desire for snow. I hate being cold and can't imagine having to get out and go to work in snow.
When I was a kid my cousin, who was my age, moved out here to California from Missouri. He was just a little guy and he would cry every year for a few years because “This isn't Christmas! There is no snow”. I used to feel so bad for him. It is often in the 80s here at Christmas.
I have only seen snow fall one time years ago when we were in the mountains for New Years and it only lasted a few minutes.
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Post by SnoopyFan on Jan 2, 2024 18:19:31 GMT
Syracuse, New York. We had zero snow for Christmas. It was 51 degrees outside. My boyfriend built a fire in the chiminea on the patio, and we sat outside and drank mimosas.
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Post by zella on Jan 2, 2024 20:24:25 GMT
No, but it's been awfully chilly here in mid Florida. As I'm writing this I'm wearing a sweater, a cardigan, thick socks, and I got gloves in my stocking that I've been taking off and on all day. This is inside the house. It's not going to hit 70 today and apparently I am now totally accustomed to the heat, and feel cold as can be if it's less than 80 degrees outside! It's supposedly 66 in our bedroom, where I am. I'm bloody freezing! It feels like England for crying out loud, LOL!
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Post by melanell on Jan 4, 2024 3:44:39 GMT
We did not have a white Christmas on the 25th, but I live in an area with a decent number of people who celebrate Orthodox Christmas and we're hearing murmuring of a possible nor'easter this coming Sunday, so anyone celebrating Christmas on the 7th in my area are likely to have some degree of white Christmas this year.
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Post by hennybutton on Jan 4, 2024 5:29:17 GMT
Very very rare for coastal So Cal to get snow. So, no white Christmas here. One year we had a nice layer of ice that stuck around for about 30 minutes. The hail sounded like it was going to put holes in the roof. That is the closest to “snow” we’ve had in this area. I think you need a few more verys on this. I grew up in Escondido. It snowed when I was 7 years old--in 1968. The last time it snowed before that was in 1949 or so when my Mom was in 4th grade. Snow in Escondido would be much more likely than snow on the coast where I've lived for the past 34 years. My daughter swears in snowed here in the 90s though. That must have been a very brief flurry. That hail storm in HB was pretty spectacular though.
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Post by gramasue on Jan 4, 2024 14:36:35 GMT
Central Ontario here, and no, we did not have a white Christmas. Surprising, because we usually get a lot of snow every winter, but this year is strange. We have had a couple of big snowfalls, but they usually melt within a couple of days. Right now, looking out the window, we have a little bit on the ground, which looks really pretty sparkling in the sunshine!
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Post by stampinfraulein on Jan 4, 2024 17:43:44 GMT
I am in the Denver area and yes, this year we had a white Christmas. It snowed a couple inches on the 23rd, was cold and blowy on the 24th, snow on the ground for the 25th, and then we had a much bigger storm on the 26th that actually gave us about 6" of snow.
We normally have a white Christmas (where there is snow on the ground, not necessarily snow falling) about 1 in every 4 years. However, prior to this past Christmas, it had been 7 years since so we were way overdue.
We are having a very dry winter so far here in the Denver area. We do get most of our snow in February, March and April. Around here predictions have been for a snowier-than-usual winter but so far that hasn't happened, although it still has plenty of time to dump snow on us.
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Post by jenr on Jan 4, 2024 17:56:17 GMT
I'm in Nebraska, and yes, we got a couple inches of snow on Christmas! I love it when that happens!
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Post by OntarioScrapper on Jan 7, 2024 3:40:19 GMT
Not this. Last year (2022) it was our first Christmas in our new city and we got a big snowstorm on the 24th. It shut the city down. No Taxis and no transit. I was at work and our power went out at around 10am. By noon, the owner said we could go home. My DH had to drive slow to get me. Took one of my co workers home since she didn't have transit. Almost wiped out at the way home. I like my co workers but didn't want to spend Christmas Eve with them! This year (2023). Rain. Rain. Rain. A dusting of snow. Rain. Apparently this is normal. The places where I have lived before in Canada, we've usually had snow. So it's a bit odd to find this out. We are on near water though. So maybe that's why?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 7, 2024 4:02:55 GMT
No snow for Christmas.. Today Saturday Jan 6th we had a white afternoon and evening, our first snow in about two years. By 10:00pm we have rain, heavy rain!!
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Post by grammadee on Jan 7, 2024 4:16:13 GMT
Northeastern Alberta here. We had no snow, but days of fog left wonderful artwork on the trees and grass. That sifted off and settled on the ground, but I would not call this a white Christmas at all. Water for livestock and wildlife is a worry b/c there is no snow to protect natural springs, or for the animals to ingest for hydration.
I remember a couple of years with very little snow in December, but by this time there is usually alot of it on the ground. Last Christmas the kids were snowshoeing and cross country skiing on 2-3 feet of it in our yard.
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 7, 2024 4:37:39 GMT
Colorado here.. which you would think a yes, but a no.. at least in Denver area.. mountains probably had some.. but I really don't know. We had some leftover snow for Christmas and then it snowed for the sixth time on the fourth and fifth. It is keeping my trees and plants wet and ready for spring.
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