This year's first snow....

[Warped9]

Yesterday I got an emotional lift. The month of November around here (Brockville, Ontario) has been a bit on the unusually mild side, and with a lot of people chorusing the notion that this will likely be a mild winter with little snow.

Yet yesterday morning I awoke to find dawn brightening over about two or three centimeters of fresh snow on the ground and still snowing lightly as I left for work around ten after seven.

Now where I live it's easy to see some countryside and I found it to be a beautiful sight that gladdened my heart. Of course I knew the temperature would rise during the day and it would all be gone by about noon or so, and it was.

When it snows in the early morning or anytime there's little activity around everything seems so still and quiet. The only discordant sound I could hear were the envisioned echoes of fellow citizens about town that were no doubt bitching about the snowfall: "Aw, Christ! Snow! Just what I don't need." or words to that effect.

Nonetheless, the sight put joy in my heart and for much of the rest of the day I found myself in a good mood and little seemed able to dampen my spirits. Whiners be damned.

I don't get tired of snow and winter until about late February then I've had about enough and I'm ready for some milder weather and lighter clothing.

But until then, bring it on. I'm really in the mood now to tweak my custom made Santa costume, and I want to see what my homemade outdoor reindeer decoration looks like at night with fresh snow.

 

[Marc]

Yesterday I got an emotional lift. The month of November around here (Brockville, Ontario) has been a bit on the unusually mild side, and with a lot of people chorusing the notion that this will likely be a mild winter with little snow.

Yet yesterday morning I awoke to find dawn brightening over about two or three centimeters of fresh snow on the ground and still snowing lightly as I left for work around ten after seven.

Now where I live it's easy to see some countryside and I found it to be a beautiful sight that gladdened my heart. Of course I knew the temperature would rise during the day and it would all be gone by about noon or so, and it was.

When it snows in the early morning or anytime there's little activity around everything seems so still and quiet. The only discordant sound I could hear were the envisioned echoes of fellow citizens about town that were no doubt bitching about the snowfall: "Aw, Christ! Snow! Just what I don't need." or words to that effect.

Nonetheless, the sight put joy in my heart and for much of the rest of the day I found myself in a good mood and little seemed able to dampen my spirits. Whiners be damned.

I don't get tired of snow and winter until about late February then I've had about enough and I'm ready for some milder weather and lighter clothing.

But until then, bring it on. I'm really in the mood now to tweak my custom made Santa costume, and I want to see what my homemade outdoor reindeer decoration looks like at night with fresh snow.

Yes we had our first snow here (Peterborough On.) yesterday but it was just a light sprinkling and had melted by mid-morning.

Fortunately it's a bit too warm for snow atm - forecast is for 30 - 40mm of rain which according to local tv weather guy, would equate to 30 odd cm of snow.

Current prediction for next Wednesday will be fun - 10cm snow, 10mm+ rain.

Will still take it over 43 degree C Novermber days back in Adelaide though.

 

[Tom Riley]

We had our first snow in New Hampshire a while ago, second week of October. It hasn't snowed at all since though...

 

[Mallory]

We generally don't get too much snow that actually sticks around in the valley I live in so I usually enjoy seeing it. Of course, when it does stick, everything pretty much shuts down. The Road Department and people in general around here are completely unable to deal with it.

 

[Trippy]

I think we discussed this before Warped but (small world) I grew up in Brockville!

No snow here (GTA) and none in the near forecast either...the grass is still green and growing!

Lots of rain in November (isn't that a Guns'nRoses song? )

 

[Crusher Disciple]

The forecast is for us to have our first hard freeze and snow flurries Friday morning.

 

[Arrqh]

First snow here was October 8th

I actually rather like snow... but the problem here is that once it's in the middle of winter the temperature is so low that when it snows it doesn't melt for weeks and as a result becomes really dirty and gross. Bleh!

 

[Davros]

We have had a few snows here in Denver since October. It's even snowing now.

 

[Canadave]

First snow here was October 8th

I actually rather like snow... but the problem here is that once it's in the middle of winter the temperature is so low that when it snows it doesn't melt for weeks and as a result becomes really dirty and gross. Bleh!

Eh, I prefer what you guys have to what it's like out here, where we're inevitably knee-deep in salty slush by mid-January. Blech.

And yeah, first real snow for the nation's capital was just the other day, though we had a sprinkling in early October. It's freezing rain out there, now.

 

[Daneel]

Yeah, as Trippy said, we haven't seen any snow in the GTA yet -- thankfully. Sorry, Warped9, but I'm with the "whiners" on this: I f**kin' hate snow. Sure, it can look pretty, but then you have to shovel it and drive through it, and that ain't much fun. Plus I always associate it with the cold, which I'm also not fond of.

Daneel, not a Winter person.

 

[Arrqh]

First snow here was October 8th

I actually rather like snow... but the problem here is that once it's in the middle of winter the temperature is so low that when it snows it doesn't melt for weeks and as a result becomes really dirty and gross. Bleh!

Eh, I prefer what you guys have to what it's like out here, where we're inevitably knee-deep in salty slush by mid-January. Blech.

The snow is always whiter on the other side of the fence

 

[The Habs Fan]

Yesterday I got an emotional lift. The month of November around here (Brockville, Ontario) has been a bit on the unusually mild side, and with a lot of people chorusing the notion that this will likely be a mild winter with little snow.

Yet yesterday morning I awoke to find dawn brightening over about two or three centimeters of fresh snow on the ground and still snowing lightly as I left for work around ten after seven.

In Ottawa, we just got rain.

Current prediction for next Wednesday will be fun - 10cm snow, 10mm+ rain.

They're calling for 10cm+ here in Ottawa. Should be a fun day (if the forecast is correct).

 

[Canadave]

First snow here was October 8th

I actually rather like snow... but the problem here is that once it's in the middle of winter the temperature is so low that when it snows it doesn't melt for weeks and as a result becomes really dirty and gross. Bleh!

Eh, I prefer what you guys have to what it's like out here, where we're inevitably knee-deep in salty slush by mid-January. Blech.

The snow is always whiter on the other side of the fence

Perhaps. I'll be going to Edmonton for a few days next month, so I'll give you the blow-by-blow comparison then.

 

[kimc]

We had our first snow during rush hour this morning but unfortunately it didn't stick.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

No snow here (GTA) and none in the near forecast either...the grass is still green and growing!

Actually, I'm told that it's snowed in Mississauga a few times this week, in the early morning. Since I don't get out to the office until 8:30, by that time it's either turned to rain or it's stopped. I've noticed what looks like frosty dew on the (green) grass that separates the various parking lots behind my office building, but no actual snow.

Nothing in Toronto proper, though.

I was in Minneapolis for a weekend back in early October, and it snowed twice while I was there. (I have a couple of pictures still on my cellphone, taken from inside the airport terminal as they were de-icing my plane. Maybe I'll get around to uploading them eventually, and I'll post them if they look okay.)

 

[RoJoHen]

Considering it snowed one day at the beginning of October, I am relieved that it took this long to snow again. Even the snow today was just minor flurries and didn't stick at all. We're supposed to get more tonight.

 

[Trippy]

^It hasn't gotten below zero here overnight yet to kill the grass!

There's some flurries in the forcast for Monday, but I'm laying money for a green Christmas

 

[Arrqh]

Here's tomorrow's forecast:

Snow and blowing snow. Amount 10 to 15 cm. Wind becoming northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 in the morning. High minus 2 with temperature falling to minus 6 in the afternoon.

Woo!

 

[Tribbles]

I live on the Gulf Coast-- the last time I saw snow was 1996, when I was 11 years old. 24 now... It was barely an inch covering the ground, but we all thought snow was just the best thing EVER!

I hope and pray every year for snow, but no luck so far. I think I'd just melt away into a pool of happy goo if it actually snowed on Christmas.

Anyway, Warped9, your post made me smile. Sounds like a lovely morning. And I like your Santa costume, too!

 

[Canadave]

I live on the Gulf Coast-- the last time I saw snow was 1996, when I was 11 years old. 24 now... It was barely an inch covering the ground, but we all thought snow was just the best thing EVER!

I hope and pray every year for snow, but no luck so far. I think I'd just melt away into a pool of happy goo if it actually snowed on Christmas.

Oh trust me, after a little while, snow begins to lose some of its appeal. I offer this picture of a storm we had a couple years ago here in Ottawa as evidence.