Winter wonderland!

[wazzacky]

its been like this for over a week and a half , sorry the photos are so big, 8MP camera was used

[Skye]

Oooh beautiful.

Our Decembers are always as hot as hell.

You're very lucky

[SilverTears]

get a snowboard and go down the hills brah.

[Siris]

Wish I could have a Christmas like that again.

[Pamela]

Soooo beautiful! We had those when I lived in Colorado and in Missouri,and the kids would FLY down hills on sleds!
I always had blankets going in the dryer to warm them up and hot chocolate simmering on the stove!

Now here in Florida it mostly rains and is breezy and like Skye said,usually hot as hell

[Mathalamus]

its cold at calgary. and no, no igaloos were sighted.

[jedimaster86]

Nice pics. I think I saw somewhere the chances of a white Christmas around Philly are only about 10% for even just an inch of snow. This year it was rainy on the Eve, and was just partly cloudy today. We just came off pretty cold temps, so a bunch of the lingering ice was melting. It's ok, I'll just pretend it's snowy out and lay around as bummish as possible. =-)

[wazzacky]

well atleast 40% of the snow melted today the 25th, im happy because the temperature is becoming seasonal again. Horray for positive temperatures

[Nethran]

That's the best it's gotten here in Missouri so far this year. Yesterday it was rainy and foggy. Today it was just dreary and cold, but not freezing.

[wazzacky]

i'd rather have 1cm of snow than 30 anyday

[Pamela]

Yah I agree...only from the practical standpoint of having to drive through the crap.

Hell in Florida all the old people forgot how to drive...with SNOW....I shudder to think...

[Nethran]

In Washington people got around pretty good in the snow. My dad got himself a tiny Kia Rio with none of the extras so that he could get around in the snow easier, since the car was light. And he has studded tires, so that helps. But them old people in the south, they does forgit how to drive sometimes. Like those two elderly gentlemen that went through the Farmer's markets a couple years ago going 80mph. That's like 135kph, I think, for the metric users.

I miss the snow. I haven't been snowboarding in 4 years. I was never good, but damnit it was fun. I haven't made an overly large snowman in a long time, either. Or had good sledding in snow I could manipilate to make a cool track for my sled, because here the average winter high temperature fluxuates between 37 and 38 fahrenheit, which is like 4-5 celsius, i think, for you celcius users. So the snow melts within a week. Also bad about the highs being there is that we get a lot of freezing rain. Worse than snow to drive in is ice. And when it's 32 degrees and raining the stuff, it gets crazy.

[wazzacky]

it was hell here, during the snowing periods. literall every day it snowed, so much that our city made public busses free and urged all residents to stop driving. Not to mention the bitter cold. which was so unusual. We are a coastal city and the coldest it has ever gotten for the 12 years i've lived here was like -5 celcius. It got to fricken -22! My fingers were numb after 4 minutes of snowplowing our driveway.

[Nethran]

Yikes. Where in the great land of Canadia are you?

[wazzacky]

Vancouver island, just north of Victoria which is just north of seatle.

[Nethran]

Ahh. I've been to Seattle. I'm guessing you have similar weather? Almost always overcast, never super hot, never super cold(usually), and a lot of rain.

[wazzacky]

from september to about april it 80% overcast i'd guess. summers are really nice, almost always clear skys. i enjoy the temperatures. around 22-30 celcius. But yes alot of rain from autumn to spring, i don't mind it really. but wow i was reading 135 km/h, thats insane, there are no highways that i know of that have speed limits that high. the highest around our city is 90km/h and outskirts can goto 100, from my city down to the capital (victoria) its like 80-90 because it runs through a mountain. North of my city there is a highway that can goto 110. i remember when i was in LA, five-lane freeways. thats crazy. going 150km/h, thats even crazier.

[Nethran]

Yeah, people in California aren't smart drivers. They allow motorcycles to weave through traffic, inbetween lanes. Legally. I think the highest speed limits go, on the interstate, is 115kph here, which is 70mph. I have no idea why they decided it would be a good idea to go crazy fast through a crowded market.

[Siris]

If you think that people from California are bad drivers you should visit Okinawa. Holy sh!t they are bad. It's crazy out here. Idk why they drive like that. It costs them like $3000 for them to get a licence. And one violation it's automatic loss. And all the scooters.........

[Nethran]

Lol. I heard a lot of foreigners think people in the US and Canadia are good drivers. Guess it's all about what you're used to.