Snow!

[monkey0506]

I actually had the awesome experience of making a snow man. I know I've been around snow before...15 1/2 years ago when my mom married her ex-husband we (the kids) got sent to Oregon for like a month to live with our auntie on her goat farm.

But I honestly don't remember that very well. I was only around 5-ish at the time.

Anyway, in December it snowed here. None of it stuck on the ground, but there was enough on my truck to make a small snow man. I tried giving him a carrot nose, but only at the point at which I had my phone working again, which involved leaving the snow man in the freezer for several days.

Anyway, apparently the freezer had turned the snow into a solid block which made it effectively impossible for me to insert the carrot. Then when I did, I realized it was too large for such a small snow man...I tried trimming it down but then it didn't fit and UGH!

Finally I got it to stay long enough to get a picture of him. I'll post it later.

[Raider]

It's been snowing on and off here in Santa Fe, NM USA. Hasn't been for a while now though, my back yard is back to normal. I never used to get snow in Auckland (NZ) so it's an awesome change. Shoveling the driveway is not as fun as it looks on TV though 
Anybody live anywhere where they do not get snow?

[Galen]

I got about 7 milimetres. Preston is such a s**t city :| .

[BOYD1981]

My sister is in Preston this week visiting somebody, I think she's actually quite happy about the lack of snow.

[Ryan Timothy B]

Our snowstorm (23-24 Nov) looked like this: [pics]

Sadly, this is how most of my winters look in Ontario, Canada. (except that we're a little more organized when it comes to snow; Cleaner roads and better snow plows.)

It's not uncommon to see at least 6 inches to a foot of snow on your car after one night (at least once a week).  I actually don't see too many cars in the ditch and definitely not buses or trucks.

I drive a little over 60km just to get to work, and this year, due to stupidity, I didn't buy winter tires.  Mostly due to Quebec passing a law where it's mandatory to have winter tires during winter, so Ontario had a large shortage of winter tires.  I could probably buy them now, but with only 6-8 weeks left, I may as well just wait until next winter.

[Domino]

It has been one crazy winter here in WNY.  Our winters for the past few years have had less snow than usual, but this year it seems like it has snowed every day.

Last week was worse.  On Wednesday it took me almost 2 hours to get to work in a snow storm when it usually takes me twenty minutes.

Here is a picture I took about a month ago that I really like looking out towards my apartments parking area.  It was a Friday and we got to leave work early, but what a shitty drive home though.



edit: THIS WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING!!!

[Wonkyth]

AAARRRGGGGHHH!
If only it were COLD!
it's too damn HOT in Canberra at the moment!

[m0ds]

If anyone can relate "Snow bunny"

with "Max & Ruby"

then you'll know exactly what I did tonight to entertain my friends kids.



That anyone is probably A. McCormack

[Galen]

My sister is in Preston this week visiting somebody, I think she's actually quite happy about the lack of snow.

I feel so sorry for her.

[Pumaman]

This is the first time that I can remember in the UK that it has snowed, and the snow has still been there 24 hours later... yay, snowball fights!!

[LimpingFish]

Snow: The Sequel! Slush!

Braved sheets of hideous gray death to go to Tesco's today. Not funny.

At all.

[RetroJay]

Hi All.

First I would like to appologise if I have seemed a bit negative lately in other posts. A fit of depression overtook me. Please forgive me.

Anyway how has the snow affected you all.
I can't help but snigger at how England always makes a complete drama out of a thin layer of snow.
Everything always comes to a complete halt when there are countries that get snow almost constantly and still seem to function.

My question is - What country are you from and how do you deal with snow.
Is it a complete catastrophie or do you continue, public transport included, to function normaly.

Just wondering.
Jay.

[Timosity]

While the Northern Hemisphere is getting loads of snow, I know it has been one of the hottest summers recorded over here in Australia,

Especially in the South Eastern quarter. Record amount of days over 40 celcius in a row in Adelaide, was over 45 one day (over 113 F)

The morgue's are full down there at the moment.

Melbourne copped it too, and Sydney and Canberra to a lesser extent but still high 30's and are expecting mid 40's over the weekend.

I'm living on the Gold Coast these days near Brisbane (closer to the equator) and it hasn't been quite as hot, around 30 everyday sometimes in the mid 30's.

I'm glad I've made the move, the summers aren't as extreme, but still more humid than down south.

Winters are getting colder and summers are getting hotter all over the world, supposedly to do with global warming, but it's really hard to know as these things have naturally happened in the long history of the planet without our input, numerous times over.

Interesting times though.

There's only a couple of places that get snow in Australia and it isn't that good, most people into winter sports fly over to New Zealand if they want better skiing, snow boarding etc or go to Europe or Canada.

I prefer the beach to the snow any day


There's also floods in tropical North QLD from a Cyclone (Hurricane) and been lots of fires in the south, cause all the fire bugs come out in the hot weather

Not sure if this has much bearing on weather conditions, but with the Earths elliptical orbit of the sun. The Southern Hemisphere's summer occurs when the Earth is closest to the sun, while The Northern Hemisphere's Summer is at it's furthest point from the sun. I think weather has more to do with cycles of air movement and water currents though. But UV may be higher in the S.H. and with the hole in the ozone layer, skin cancer is the thing to worry about

[Dualnames]

Bah, I'd kill for some snow..