We pretty much ALWAYS have a White Christmas...literally WHITE as in bloody cold, hoar frost on everything, white and COLD!
Its hard to read (unless you click on the photo), but it says that with wind chill, the temperature feels like -38C! YUP - COLD!
Typically, this kind of cold weather often starts on Christmas, and the last week of December (and maybe 1/2 of January) is often when we get these extreme cold days, but we've had it off and on all December this year. We also have had a TON of snow - in the month of November, we had 50% of the TOTAL snow we typically get the entire winter (Nov - March).
Its been a crazy winter thus far, and YES, its going to be a WHITE Christmas!
I *love* that we get a white Christmas - when the snow falls for the 1st time, that's when I whip out the Christmas music. It looks beautiful and when its sunny (and its often REALLY sunny...which is a big clue at how cold it is) because the sky is SO blue with all the white around and when its really REALLY cold and sunny, the hoar frost is amazing.
Snow and cold is FINE so that Christmas looks white, but really, if it would just land everywhere OTHER than the roads and side walks, that would be ideal - driving is really difficult and challenging (especially like this year when it RAINS and then immediately freezes and is covered with a foot or more of snow). I also would be MORE than happy if it would all GO away by the end of January...a winter that lasted from Nov to Jan would be PLENTY, trust me!
Here are a few photos of what Christmas typically looks like (I took these Jan 2013 walking around a park near our house)
