Do you live in a place that has snow?

[OfMiceandMen]

Do you get a real winter with snow and do you still like it? If you live in an area that doesn't have snow, have you ever travelled to a place that has snow? What did you think?

[Adventurer23]

I live in the very southern part of Canada and we get snow (obviously), and I hate it. lol I had to shovel again last night after getting another 3 inches of the white stuff. It's pretty to look at, but a pain in the butt to shovel. What's worse is when you go out to shovel the sidewalk and then the city sidewalk plow comes by and deposits even more snow at the end of the driveway (also scraping away all the salt you just put down in the process), so then you have to get dressed and go back out to clear it. Then the road plow comes by and shoves even more snow into the entrance of the driveway, so then you need to get dressed again to go out to clear even more snow and slush. And you can't just leave it either, because most times it'll freeze solid and turn into a big pile of ice that you couldn't move with a Caterpillar tractor.

Then there's just the everyday "fun" stuff of winter like having to be mindful of the weather forecast from day to day, and bundle up in layers of clothes depending on the temperature just to go outside. I also like to do a lot of walking, but I'm not always able to do that all the time during the winter because of all the ice and snow all over the sidewalks, mostly because some people don't shovel their walk at all. There are times when it can legit be dangerous walking around out there, simply because people are too lazy and inconsiderate to do it. Sadly, many elderly people are trapped indoors for months during the winter because they can't even safely walk around their own neighbourhood. It's so wrong.

The vast majority of the things I like to do revolve around warm weather, so wintertime is never fun for me, and my level of activity drops off quite a bit during winter because it's just too cold and miserable to do things outside. I have some things I do during winter like walking (when I can) and fishing, but I just don't like the cold. I'm a warm weather guy.

Oh, and I also forgot to mention how cloudy it gets here during late fall and into the winter as well. During winter it's much cloudier in the eastern half of the continent than most areas of the western half (with the exception of the Pacific Northwest and Florida), and most years, from late November through sometime in March it's often cloudy here most days, and we can go without sunshine for days or even a week or two without any direct sunlight at all. It's so grey, gloomy and depressing sometimes. Due to the lack of sunshine and lower activity levels in winter, people's vitamin D levels drop, which can also lead to seasonal depression. In fact, this winter has actually been the cloudiest winter we've had in over 70 years and we had a stretch from mid-December into January where we didn't have a single bit of direct sunshine for 26 straight days! Ugh, I hate winter. So yeah, you can say I'm not a fan. lol

[OfMiceandMen]

I don't mind the shoveling etc., but I agree, it's time for spring.

[Adventurer23]

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[exitseven]

No, oddly enough I live in New England and there is not a bit of snow on the ground. We had maybe 5 inches the whole winter. I was okay with that.

[OfMiceandMen]

Is that unusual to only get 5 inches of snow all winter long?

[exitseven]

yes usually we get ten times as much.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[TrueConfection]

Yes. We have all 4 seasons where I live. I like the snow in winter, but not so much if it keeps snowing in the spring. I love having all 4 seasons.

[OfMiceandMen]

Me too, looking forward to spring though.👌

[TrueConfection]

We didn't get much of a winter this year. It felt more like 6 months of fall weather. Regardless, I'm looking forward to spring too.

My favorite commercial;
https://youtu.be/s6O11slE8B8

[OfMiceandMen]

😂👌 That pretty much sums it up!

[Molly1997]

Yeah tons of snow. In the middle of a snow storm. I like it for the first few months but then I wish it would go away lol

[OfMiceandMen]

It's nice for the holidays and to get outside for a few bonfires, but I am looking forward to spring.

[purplepoppy]

We get the occasional light sprinkling but it only lasts a day or two at most. It's been years since we saw anything more than a light dusting.

[KostasKouvalis]

Same here. We got some this year, but it wasn't enough to shovel

[SnowedIn]

We do get snow. Not as much as when I used to live up north but we do get snow.

Here's a picture from a couple years back:

[SnowedIn]

Yeah, that was a fail on including the picture. Sorry!

[OfMiceandMen]

No prob regarding the photo. We had a decent amount of snow this year, but nothing in comparison to what we used to receive. The fact that a good majority of the back lakes did not freeze is really unusual.

[SnowedIn]

Here's the picture: https://postimg.cc/4mH9qvH4

[OfMiceandMen]

A nice little dusting, we had 30 cm (almost 12 inches) fall in 24 hours a few weeks ago and an few inches here and there after that. Most of it has melted though.

[SnowedIn]

My kids would have LOVED that.

[OfMiceandMen]

There were kids making snow forts in every other yard.

[BeMuse]

Technically it has snowed in Florida before, but it's not that common in modern history.

[OfMiceandMen]

I've been there on a couple of cool nights when I was on holidays a few years ago, but even then it was about 10 degrees C.

[BeMuse]

There was snow in south Florida all the way down in Miami in the late 1970s (I think 1977). I wasn't alive then but my parents were and lived here at the time. They said it was a small flurries of snow that melted as soon as it hit the ground, but you could see snow flakes all over the sky. When I was a kid in the 1980s I remember small ice storms and hail occasionally anywhere from Fort. Lauderdale to West Palm Beach. Up in the panhandle close to the Georgia and Alabama border it's more common to snow, but still very rare. I remember my dad complaining about bone chilling gold at the University of Florida when he was a young guy. Today in south Florida you might get a frost once a year close tot he south tip of Lake Okeechobee out in Palm Beach Gardens/Loxahatchee area. A bit north of there say Vero Beach to maybe Palm Bay you will generally get 2-3 mild frosts a year, but the area is a relatively well insulated micro climate due to the St. Johns River, Blue Cypress and the Indian River Lagoon. This is why when large parts of the central Florida citrus industry were wiped out by frost that Indian River Grapefruit survived and it became a big marketing thing on TV. In a colder year you might drop to say -3 C. Once you get to about Melbourne on the east cost there are far more frosts that hit unless you are on are on a barrier island like Merritt Island surrounded by the Indian River Lagoon and the Banana River. On the west coast that division line is roughly around Tampa. In land there are colder temperatures but there are several ridges (i. e. Lake Wales Ridge) and massive lake systems that give protection from frosts which give rise to town names like Frostproof, FL. It's definitely possible to get cold weather and even snow in Florida, it's just not very common.

[BeMuse]

*cold

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[OfMiceandMen]

I remember my parents telling me about that when I was kid. We use to get a lot of snow in Ontario, but not as much as we used to when I was younger. I recall snowmobiling along the groomed trails and if you got off the main packed trail your snow machine would drop out of site. If you jumped off the snowmobile trail you would sink up to your waist or chest in snow. When my brother and I were teens, we would make money shoveling off cottages around the lake, bc if you didn't and it happened to rain, the roof would cave-in.

[BeMuse]

I think a lot of the cold weather back in the 70s and 80s had to do with aerosols in the atmosphere as well various types of debris from nuclear testing, rocket launches, and satellites that failed during the space race and cold war. All the extra particles in the atmosphere reflected sunlight back into space. It was a man made mini ice age/nuclear winter of sorts. In the Early 90s many nations stopped nuclear tests because the Berlin wall fell in 89. In 1994 bans of CFCs in aerosols went into effect under the clean air act. So as a result the man made cooling that was occurring stoppered and things warmed up a little bit. Now aristocrats and bureaucrats are acting like doing the same thing again is a brand new idea and innovative technology to solve global warming. It's pretty ridiculous given that aerosols put a hole in the ozone layer last time and that we already ran that experiment world wide.

[BeMuse]

What's even more weird is you have people like Bill Gates promoting spraying aerosols into the atmosphere for his climate experiments. He's on the record as a loyalist to China and has done many things that negatively affect the US population, yet by spraying aerosols into the atmosphere for global warming, he would change rainfall patterns that would reduce rainfall in China and India which would lead to mass starvation in the nation he seems to be a puppet of... These aristocrats aren't very bright bright people. That's for sure...

[CrimsonAngel09]

Nope. South Carolina rarely gets snow.

[OfMiceandMen]

Have you ever travelled north to see snow before?

[CrimsonAngel09]

Nope.

[Redstang88]

Usually get a couple good storms every winter, rarely sticks more than a couple days though. You never have to go far to find it though

[Anonymous]

I get snow most winters but it’s been mild lately so I haven’t seen much

[NathanDavis]

sadly, no...

[OfMiceandMen]

You live in a location that doesn't receive snow?

[KostasKouvalis]

No, but we did this year

[Guy13]

Not often.

[OfMiceandMen]

Like just during the peak - January/February when temps dive just enough to get snow?