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i don't believe i EVER experienced this (poss exception the winter of 1963, which was v.hard) (but i don't remember it)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

(thread idea inspired by di)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

6 months til X-mas! yay!!

I think there was a brief bit of snow a couple of years ago. I have photos of snow pretty close to X-mas, but it might not have been the actual day itself.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this actually DID happen here when I was like 5, and I have a picture from the big day, but since this is Tucson and it's only snowed like 3 times in my entire life I suspect this may be something I just NEED to believe happened.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

actual day = u&k

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think this has ever happened to me. I remember one year it snowed on Christmas eve, which was really cool, so we woke up to snow on the ground. To be honest I thought this was alot better than it actually snowing on Christmas day.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I think it snowed on Christmas day in 1999.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

in acton?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, there was snow in london xmas day only a few years back. I had snowy xmass up north in my life a few times too.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

it snowed on BOXING DAY heavily in 2000 all over the UK...i think they had it in the North the day before as well

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I must've been too hungover to notice!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

You should move here, the northernmost part of Europe. We have snow almost every Christmas, and also three months after that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It usually snows on my birthday (February) which is cool. Unless of course you're waiting on a freezing cold Kings Cross platform for a train home!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ok xmas carol quote: "in the bleak midwinter"

=> it snows in winter + it snows in feb = winter is october-feb?

except usually it doesn't snow UNTIL feb, so did the year gradually get out of sync w.itself somewhere along the line (and xmass is not really NOT in midwinter at all, but the start of winter or indeed actually now in autumn!?)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Well if people call the spring equinox the start of spring, then the winter solstice must be the start of winter.

Today is Christmas in the southern hemisphere.

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

move to canada mark - tis snow from october to april!

― doom-e, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

ok so "in the bleak midwinter" is abt what then? pinkpanther's b'day maybe!!?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Season slippage: the new Y2K?

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

New York City got a white Christmas last year -- the first since 1969!!!

Actually my favoritest Christmas ever may have an unseasonably warm one in '76, where it reached 50-60F.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

1980 - there was snow all over the UK IIRC from Dec 20th-ish until the first week of Jan. It was my first term at Univ and we sort of got snowed in on the last day before the hols. Well I didn't - I trudged from campus to Reading station in DEEP snow and successfully made it oop north, whilst lots of sloane ranger posho types waited for mummy and daddy to rescue them. The snow and ice lasted until after the start of the next term, so at least 3 weeks and it definitely snowed ON Xmas day in N.Lincs where I was.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

there were some great hard winters in the early 80s!! in 1983 there was a day when shropshire proudly declared that the raf station at [forget] registered colder temps than THE SOUTH POLE ON THE SAME DAY (where of course it wz summer and doubtless sweltering)

EVEN SO, i don't think it snowed in and around shrewsbury either year (it is of course dead centre of the shropshire/cheshire plain hence likely in prevailing conditions to be milder than almost everywhere else)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the british would start crying and stuff if they got any real snow. the weather gods know that and take it easy on england.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

we start crying whatever the weather!! that's the whole point of being british!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

but snow? you sissies would all be in therapy if it snowed on christmas day.

BLIMEY DID YOU SEE ALL THE SNOW? WE MUST SHUT DOWN ENGLAND AND DO NOTHING UNTIL THIS 'ORRIBLE THREAT PASSES!

― doom-e, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yes i know, currently that announcement goes out in feb at the earliest

(cf also the first day in spring/early summer when heavy rain shuts down the underground system in london OH NO RAIN WHAT IS THIS HOW CAN THIS BE SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN PHEW THAT'S IT NEVER AGAIN WILL SUCH A DARK DAY BE SEEN SURELY etc)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

also the whole point of xmas in the uk is doing nothing for a month anyway, so snow wd make no actual diff to activity

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the great christmas shutdown...

hell harsh weather after five should not affect all retail and coffee shops ... OH NO SUCH DARK DAYS ARE NEVER TO OCCUR AGAIN, THE MAYOR HAS DECREED THAT ALL RETAIL SERVICES MUST BE SHUT PROMPTLY AT FIVE O'CLOCK. PHEW. THAT WAS 'ORRIBLE.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

YOU LOVE IT DOOM-E!!

haha anyway the mayor's decree is like all weird law in the uk, an excuse to make official what they wd have done anyway

have you been into any of those classic brit basic fawlty-style shops where it turns out you are the WRONG KIND OF PERSON TO BE SHOPPING IN THEM — i love them!!

eg there was a model/soldiers shop in shrewsbury run by a guy who HATED AND FEARED teenage boys, and wd often refuse to serve them for wanting to buy eg some airfix paint

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

this shd be a separate thread tho

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Midwinter is around Christmas -- the solstice -- just like Midsummer's Eve is June 21st(ish). It's just one of those things (that's code for "there's probably a fine reason for it, but I don't remember what it was, or maybe never knew.")

Snow on Christmas is overrated. I'm hoping never to see it again; rather than travel either to Spokane with the girlfriend or New Hampshire to see my family this year, I'm just staying put in Indiana and gonna have Christmas with, well, my cats I guess. (That sounds sad; it really isn't.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i love scurrying around like a rat because of a mayor's weather decree that permits everything to shut promptly at 5....

england?

pah! it's 'orrible.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

in hanwell, mark! Yeah, I think it mighta been 2000.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(to the sounds of "The Menagerie Made of Snow", seguing into "Frostwork", incidentally, i've made to realise here that)

meeting its Xmases, Britan, as a rule, is stark nekkid, eh?!

...BAH!!!!!!

sidenote: Prince's snow in April ain't that big a deal either; i've seen it snow in May (only once, tho ...'78 or '79)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm only 25, and it's happened a bunch of times that I can remember. Well, either on Dec. 25 or a huge storm right before. Pretty sure it happened this past year, too. (or was it freakishly warm?)(no, that was Thanksgiving)(I live in Chicago)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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