Providence, RI received 37.9” of snow! 
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I think you win!!! 
Oh, I don’t live there. I just happened to read about it earlier today.
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Oh my sad boy. My S22 been training dor 5-6 months for a marathon this upcoming Sunday March 1. But it’s on the Cape (Hyannis). Well, they just cancelled it as too much of Hyannis is out of power from downed lines and streets are unplowed.
I’ve never heard him this sad. I suggested a marathon here (in VA) a week later or one in New England a month or two later, but he’s basically geared everything around completing this this weekend. He talked about de-loading (I do not know what that is) and everything he’s done to train for this date. Sigh. Poor guy.
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Plenty of races to be had. De loading means he has tapered his runs in order to be ready to do all the miles in the actual race.
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I love how CC suggested this thread on the page we’re talking about hot weather…
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Hahaha. Believe it or not, it snowed this week in Montana!
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Utah also had snow a few days ago.
But the snow storms also brought high winds and fire weather.
One year there was a good bit of snow in the woods when it was warm enough to swim in the lake near our cabin! The kids had a snowball fight wearing swimsuits.
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Many years ago I had to return my nephew to Steamboat. It was July 2 and in Denver it was 102. When we got to Kremling (about 1/2 way) it was nippy at about 40 degrees. We got to Steamboat (about 3 hours NW of Denver) and it was snowing! Of course my brother was wearing shorts as it was summer and in the summer you wear shorts (it’s a law).
I think that was my biggest temp change in 3 hours, from 102 to about 30 degrees.
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This reminds me of when we took a trip to the Canadian Rockies in July.
Several of us (all adults - I was @ the youngest at just under 40) decided to jump into the glacier fed lake and then headed into the sauna. After a few minutes we went out and made snow angels in the snow that was still on the ground. We were on a mostly cycling trip, and the week before people on the trip were dealing with snow on the ground where they were cycling.
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As I mentioned in the 1976 July 4 thread, I went on a cross country trip beginning just after July 4. On the trip, we mostly camped and backpacked, and it was a great trip.
We went to Crater Lake, arriving after sundown. As we drove up the mountain, I noticed it was snowing…it wasn’t even the end of July. My travel companions thought I was nuts, until the car started to slip and slide. We did have a little extra cash for eating out, etc. I suggested we drive to the lodge, park the car and plan to have breakfast inside. Everyone agreed.
So…in the morning, we went inside. A nice fire was blazing in the fireplace and Christmas carols were playing. Say what? So…I asked the waitress why. She explained…it was their first snowfall of the season, and when that happened, they celebrated…Christmas. We had a nice hot breakfast, enjoyed the warmth. The sun came up and the snow quickly melted. By the time we got to the bottom, it was 80 degrees.
I’ll add, the warmest clothing any of us had was a hoodie.
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When we went to Yellowstone with the kids, I warned everyone that weather could include snow in June and packed for myself & the kids accordingly. H didn’t believe me and just packed a hoodie & windbreaker. The 1st day we were there in June, it was hot and sunny, then raining, then icy rain then snowing all in the same day! The kids and I were fine but H was freezing so we had to buy him a warm fleece as an early father’s day gift. Hah!
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I first moved to Colorado in June 1975. We were playing tourist for several weeks. We’d go to church at the Air Force Academy and then my father would decide to drive to the top of Pike’s Peak. Church clothes fine for 7000 feet, not so appropriate for 14000 feet. Shorts and a tee shirt great for Denver during the day, not so great for Red Rocks concert at night.
Quickly learned to keep extra clothing in the car. Still do that today with an extra fleece, some gloves, and blankets in the car at all times. And an ice scraper for the windshield.
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My friends went to grad school in Fort Collins. One of them remembers when he went to school & work in shorts and slippers on hot sunny day and had to run home when he had a break to change because it was snowing by mid-day.
We were kind of the opposite. My H said it could be pretty cool/cold when we went to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone in September. It was so HOT, and I was really glad to have at least 1 tank top (that showed up in LOTS of pictures 
). I even bought a very packable down puffer jacket for that trip. Didn’t need it…
Yes, I had expected Scandinavia to be cool-cold/rainy in May. It was pretty comfortable with just one or two layers, sometimes no jacket or just light raincoat. I rarely needed my warm ski jacket @ mostly left it in the hotel. It was good to have packed layers—we never needed the rain pants as we mostly had clear weather with light drizzling in Bergen.
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