What are the chances of having a white Christmas where you live?

[Maine Mary]

[DODI]

1. I love it when it snows on Christmas Eve -- it seems to portend a very

good year. I hope we here in CT get some snow on the Eve, I could use a good year.

[amazona]

2. as far as I know

It has happened only once in recorded history, in 1989.

[Zomby Woof]

3. Over 50%

We got our first snow of the year October 17th, and have had several good snowfalls so far since... including over 8 inches last week.

So I am rooting for one. :-)

[Maine Mary]

7. Hey ZombyWoof- Shouldn't you be brewing some coffee?

Hazelnut please, and a bagel to go with it. ;-) Good to see you again.

But about the snow... I thought you were in Arizona now (?) If so, you must be in the mountainous area (?)

[Zomby Woof]

10. Here's your coffee, MM!

And the bagel. ;-)

Yes, I am in AZ. Northern AZ is the southern part of the Colorado plateau. Where I live is 7,000 feet, and next to the San Francisco Peaks, home of the ski resort called The Snow Bowl. :-) We're in the midst of the world's largest ponderosa pine forest. So when it snows, it does look like a Christmas card.

The Grand Canyon (about 60 miles northwest of me) also gets snow, and is beautiful when it does.

Last year was fairly dry, but this winter is off to an early start. When it's clear at night, we get single digit temps or less. I had posted a thread a few weeks ago about the morning it was one degree. :scared:

This is the GOOD part of the state. I don't want anything to do with Phoenix or the desert. :D

:hi: :donut:

[Zomby Woof]

12. ...and here's a snapshot of the peaks where I live!

[Maine Mary]

19. A Skiers Paradise!

My daughter would love it! VERY pretty too.

[tyedyeto]

45. love it up there in Flag..

my son went to NAU for a couple of years and was a ski instructor at AZ Snobowl. Now he's at Humboldt State on the No. Calif coast.
I have to agree with you about the scenery up your way. Nicer than here down south of Tucson.

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[Maine Mary]

18. Sounds like gorgeous ZW!

Especially due to the fact that if it gets too cold you can always take a day or weekend trip to warmer climes (I assume):shrug: I don't blame you for disliking the desert areas though. Some people say it has it's own kind of beauty but w/only a few exceptions during the week I spent in Tucson, I rarely saw that except in the evenings. It wasn't just unbearably hot, it was also kind of ugly IMHO. The surrounding mtns were pretty but all that cacti and parched brown shrubery... it just seemed so uninviting to me somehow.


It's very beautiful where I live too- My home is in the foothills of the Northern Appalachian Mtn range. Obviously our Mtn range is nowhere near the elevation you are in (4k feet at a nearby ski resort) But there are alot of rolling hills and small mtns. We're also not too high up or too northern to have the beautiful hardwoods intermingled with some Pine. It's very rural too. In my entire (former) legislative district (which was about the size of Rhode Island) there was not a single traffic light. Just rivers, mtns and 100's of lakes.

Oh my... What a motormouth! I think I've overindulged myself with your excellent coffee! Bagel was good too. Thanks :-)

[Zomby Woof]

20. It sounds beautiful

I have YET to make a trip to New England, and you made an EXCELLENT case for it. Keep talking! :D

[gollygee]

4. A pilot friend told us that we'll have a blizzard next week

So I'm guessing we'll have a white christmas.

[frictionlessO]

5. Buffalo here, figure a 91.635 chnace of snow for Xmas.... got my

snow shoes ready though, cause it looks like our first real snows start happening in the next 48 hours. YAY!! Freeze the ground already Jack Frost!

[Maine Mary]

9. My daughter is a Freshman @ Syracuse U.

That's some distance from you isn't it? Anyway, I've heard they (Syracuse folks) get alot of snow too. Is it as plentiful as in Buffalo?

[frictionlessO]

17. 3 and a half hours I think.... most years it seems they get more....but

honestly its all about which way the lake effect dominates. at least thats what it seems from here.. I know theres people here who could tell you better.

[SmokingJacket]

29. Last year Syracuse had more snow than almost anywhere.

I think.

[Igel]

38. Didn't Syracuse get the "Golden Snowball" award last year? n/t

[supernova]

6. I only remember one white Christmas

when I was small. It didn't snow on Christmas, but a couple of days before.

That's the only white xmas I remember.

We have had some years where we had flurries and a light dusting. That's pretty. I doubt we'll have that though, because it's been fairly warm, 10+ degrees so far.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. since there is no category for no chance in hell, but not

warm enough for a pool,I had to choose under 25%.
Here it is more like 5% possibility, although it could be chilly and possibly sleet.

If Christmas were this week, I could go to Candlelight Service in my shorts...low 70s today

[Frogtutor]

36. Hee, hee; I know THAT'S right! Not a snowball's chance in hell...n/t

[babylonsister]

11. Zilch chance in Houston. nt

[barb162]

13. just read in the paper that we are supposed to have a very high

chance of snow for Xmas

[SarahB]

14. Central CT- about 50%.

:shrug:
To be honest, I'm getting sick of cold weather. The older I get, the more I hate the cold and snow and all the annoyances of it. I'm still only in my early 30's too, so I suppose once I'm 60 or 70, I'll be one of those ladies that wears a sweater all Summer long (or I'll live someplace warmer :D).

[yorkiemommie1]

15. ' twill be 80*

here in SoCal today.

then will decline to 58* in a few days. i'm glad for the respite though!

[scarlet_owl]

16. Probably about 50% chance here. Although it's been a while

since we had one last. Personally I hope it doesn't snow. I hate driving in it.

[greendog]

21. 51% in the Flathead Valley...

...NW Montana. Within a few weeks we'll have snow on the ground that'll last for months. Whether we have it for christmas is anybody's guess.

[RebelOne]

22. I live in the Atlanta, GA area amd I remember only

one white Xmas since I moved here in 1989.

[Bat Boy]

23. In Chicago snow tends to turn gray after 10 minutes or so

So I'm not sure how to answer this.

[Left Is Write]

24. Very low chance. This is our 5th Christmas here, and none of them

have been white so far. There's a ton of snow up in the mountains - all the ski areas have opened - but there's no snow here. Temps in the high 40s. We've had a few days of rain.

[Champ]

25. 0%

[skygazer]

26. Practically zilch

When we do get snow here (Los Gatos, CA, bay area), it's only a dusting and generally confined to the mountain peaks. However, 4 years ago, we got a pretty good amount - probably 6 to 8 inches in the mountains and at least a couple of inches in town. It was thoroughly exciting for those who had never seen such a thing.

I lived on top of a mountain at the time and was snowed in for four days which I thought was a riot since I'd lived in Vermont for 38 years and had never been snowed in for more than one day. But back there, we had these things called "snowplows" and "snow tires"....

I don't see much chance of that this year, though. Most years, I go to the beach on Christmas.

[sbj405]

27. Now compare your answers to climate records

[Cadence]

30. Yep! Same as my answer.

I'm right by the edge of the white area in Colorado.

[Maine Mary]

31. Wow. Great Info. Thanks

I'm in the white shaded part of Maine- not far from the Quebec Border. We generally have snow for Christmas although there have a been few snowless ones within the past decade or so.

I like the snow for Christmas and New Years but wish it'd go away right after. Oh well.

[goodboy]

28. doesn't happen too much anymore because of global warming

My dad says snow used to stay a lot longer when he was a kid in Ohio...

[bikebloke]

32. Not this year in DC, hopefully

So far it's been a mild winter. I bike everywhere and it's such a pain to swaddle up for deep space. Then there's a stretch into work that's never cleared. The melts and refreezes make it treacherous. It's so embarrassing when someone sees you do ice ballet, followed by a thump.

[fluffernutter]

33. under 25%, and i miss the snow like crazy.

especially at Christmastime.

[Endangered Specie]

34. Nothing makes Xmas eve better than...

a good Thunderstorm, if you ask me.

[GOPisEvil]

35. Practically zero.

I might be basking by the pool, but I know almost for sure that I won't be playing in snow.

[RevCheesehead]

37. Even though Monday's snow is all melted away...

the chances are pretty good that we'll see the white stuff soon.

That reminds me - gotta get gas for the snowthrower.

[Miami Liberal]

39. Zero

there's never a white christams here. :cry:

[CatBoreal]

40. I live...

...500 miles from James Bay so snow is always a given.

[Swede]

41. I live in Saskatoon,Saskatchewan.

Snow,snow, more snow, plug in the fucking car,shovel.

[CatBoreal]

42. Do you have....

snow blowers attached to the front of big CAT front end dozers to plow the roads??

No wimpy snow plows for us up here. Nu-uh!

[Swede]

43. Fucking snow. Three more months,no wonder you Americans invaded

a warm country. We shoud try it.

[CatBoreal]

44. Hubby applied...

...for a teaching job in Bermuda. Every time he shovels the snow (3 times in the last week) he comes in asking if there's been a reply from the ministry of ed.

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!!

[short bus president]

46. Eh... fair to middlin'?

It's only gotten cold again today. Was 74 yesterday, below freezing tonight. I'll be making to annual getting-ready-for-winter trip to the costco to fill up my generator gas cans tomorrow, in fact. ;-)

[nini]

47. Zero.... I'll be in Costa Rica that day

:bounce:

[fnottr]

48. it actually has already snowed and stuck here this year

twice even! But the thing rarely does the snow last for more than a day except in shady patches around here. So in order to have a white Christmas, it absolutely must snow a lot on Christmas eve. And seeing how we get 6-8 inches of rain a year, the chances of it snowing on any given day, no matter how cold, are pretty small. The closest I can remember coming is having a few lone patches of snow and ice in the back yard on christmas morning.

The mountains are another story, they stay snowy pretty much all winter.