<p>OK, I know all you jaded northerners will laugh, but it is SNOWING in Houston! There was enough snow on my car to make a, well, a snow ice cube.</p>
<p>It’s supposed to get cold here in the NW, but I confess I’m jealous: I just would really love to see a few flakes during the holiday season!!! I’m glad you got the unexpected touch of winter!</p>
<p>I’m staying off the roads until it warms up…!!!</p>
<p>My H sent me an email that it was snowing in Paris, but none was sticking yet, which he’s hoping for to get some good pics.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, back in LA … typical, boring December weather. At least there are no fires burning and rain (!) is predicted for the weekend.</p>
<p>I know! Crazy! It was 77 degrees yesterday and 37 today. My son was actually having soccer practice this afternoon when it started snowing. They kept on going – but that was a new one!</p>
<p>Oh I hope we have a white Christmas here in the northeast. We haven’t really seen snow
yet.</p>
<p>Northern Indiana has had plenty already. Ice too. Yeck. I hate it more every winter.</p>
<p>Here in Connecticut we had a very pretty and quickly vanishing snowstorm over this past weekend. There’s a winter weather advisory posted for our area from 6am tomorrow morning through sometime Friday. That can mean anything from nasty cold rain to several inches of snow … or ice. It can also mean delayed openings, me driving my new driver son to school since he’s had no practice on the slippery stuff yet, or possibly school closures, depending on just how bad it is. </p>
<p>Since my son attends an independent day school 15 miles north of our home – which draws students from a 15-20 mile radius in all directions right up into some serious hill country in CT and NY – a cancellation is not out of the question. I’m ready!!!</p>
<p>Talk of snow here this weekend, but you just never know if it will materialize or not. It does sounds like it’s going to get VERY cold (lows in the teens). We don’t get cold like that very often. Brrr, just the thought of it gives me the shivers.</p>
<p>My son left for the airport in Houston late this afternoon to catch his flight home for Christmas vacation. He was sitting at the gate waiting for the flight when he got a text message from a friend telling him to go look out the window. He looked out and saw that it was snowing pretty hard (well, hard for Houston)! He said that it didn’t last too long but it was really cool. He’s a Florida kid so I think this is only the 2nd time he’s even seen snow.</p>
<p>fireflyscout “OK, I know all you jaded northerners will laugh, but it is SNOWING in Houston! There was enough snow on my car to make a, well, a snow ice cube.”</p>
<p>Ha ha ha! Thanks for the laugh! And for reminding me to appreciate the white stuff that’s been blanketing our lawns and streets for more than a week now in Iowa. Some schools even had their first snow day on Tuesday - how can that already be starting?! The Christmas lights of the neighbors reflecting off the snow does put one in the spirit of the Christmas season :)</p>
<p>I think I win the prize so far (northern NY). 18 " the day before Halloween and 24" from the day before Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving night! With a couple other “minor dustings” of 4-6 inches. I am officially very sick of winter and it hasn’t even started!</p>
<p>You win, musmom2! I’m in Anchorage and you’ve had more snow than we have - although we got another 6-8 inches that I just finished shoveling - it’s hard to lift all that snow over the piles on the sides of the driveway! We did get quite a bit over last weekend - I think my H cleared the driveway 4 times!</p>
<p>Hey, only 5 more months of winter here! And we’re down around 5-1/2 hours of daylight. Can’t wait until that turns around.</p>
<p>By the way, see my screen name? I mean it!!</p>
<p>Around here snow is something you drive to if you want to ski. So far I’m still driving with the top down.</p>
<p>It is most awesome that the first snowfall of the season can still evoke a sense of wonderment in all of us. I think that that is the one emotion that has not been lost to adulthood. Bring it on…I love the snow. Oh…and it was near 70 in Philly yesterday…what’s with that?</p>
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<p>cnp55 – have we met? From your description of things here in CT, we could be neighbors! My S also drives to his independent school – but has yet to tackle the roads when they’re covered with snow and ice.</p>
<p>The kids at UT in Austin were running out into the quad and screaming “snow!”</p>
<p>My daughter likes snow and was pleased to see snow falling in Austin, even just for a little while, and was happy to see everyone enjoying it so much as a little study break during the reading days before finals; she said some people said they had never seen snow before. </p>
<p>(We live in the snow belt of Northeastern Ohio and always spend Thanksgiving in Buffalo and Christmas in Northern Minnesota. Never a shortage of the white stuff.)</p>
<p>Oh, my God. It’s snowing here in New Orleans!</p>
<p>What a weird weather week. When I got up Monday it was 18 degrees. When i got up Wednesday it was 60…</p>
<p>And loads and loads of rain.</p>
<p>just had a text from D in NOLA… she’s taking her friend who grew up there out to teach her how to make a snowman. the poor kid’s never seen snow before.</p>