Pictures of Winter. Please post your cold pictures also. (snowing, days, storms)

[bob rulz]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

Where I grew up, most of the year is at minimum cold enough to need sleeves or a coat. I know very few people who actually like to wear coats. To our family, coats are a sign of either undesireable or oppressive weather.

I actually desire a minimum of 2-3 months a year with heat indexes consistantly between 100-110 F. I love it when the air feels saturated with warmth, like a heavy blanket.

(My summer vacations to South Carolina got me "hooked on heat.")

We don't need anymore rain.
Where I'm from our hotter and drier summers usually mean good news for a lot of farmers since crops ripen faster.

Yes, they are nice pictures. "Snow-topiary" is often neat to look at.
I just hate it when they add salt and sand to make it go brown-black.

Where do you live (well, I'm assuming Canada...) and how cold does it get? We've had .02 inches of rain since the beginning of the month. Add in 0.55 inches from July, that's 0.57 inches in the last 2 months. It's a little drier than normal, but not unheard of.

The summer nights usually drop into the upper 50s to low 70s, but this year it's been more consistently the mid-60s to upper 70s. That low of 59 this morning was so ridiculously nice. I don't need a jacket until it falls to the freezing point (unless it's windy, which it usually is), and that usually doesn't happen consistently until November sometime. I don't mind wearing jackets at all, but even in very cold weather coats tend to make me too hot (then I take it off and it's too cold )

After learning the climate of most of the mid-sized and larger cities in the U.S., I think the one with the best climate for me is Flagstaff, Arizona. Average summer temps in the 70s and 80s, cold winters with frequent snow, still a decent amount of rain in summer (a lot more than here, that's for sure).

[eggalegga]

bob, I remember the December 26, 2003 whopper of a snow storm. It just wouldn't stop snowing!

I've attached a picture that isn't mine, but I love it anyway.

[kaykay]

Thanks for posting all your winter/snow pics, guys! It's hot here in Texas right now and I sooo enjoyed looking at them. I have actually never seen snow as deep as those first couple of pics. We formerly lived in Lubbock(the "panhandle" of Texas) and right before we moved we got 10 inches of snow followed by about 18 inches a couple of weeks later. That is probably the deepest snow I have personally seen.

My son only lived in Dallas. He never saw snow deeper than half an inch until he went snow-skiing at age 15 in Breckenridge, Colorado! I know that the snow is probably more picturesque to look at than deal with, i.e.- "digging your car" out etc.

Anyway, loved looking at the snow pics. We have actually had a "mild" summer here in Dallas this year. Only broken 100 degrees a few times. Sometimes we have 45 days or so over 100.

[southernlady5464]

Days we will NOT miss this year:

This was in Dec 2005:





And this was just before my husband left for his temp assignment in Feb of this year...we moved to NC in late April so it was the last snow HE had to shovel.










I enjoyed having snow cause I grew up in SC and seldom saw it but I didn't like being cold 6-9 months of the year. I was ready to move back south. My husband was more than ready to hang up his snow shovel. Liz

[Magnum Mike]

You hear a lot about how hot summers are in the desert regions of Arizona, but believe it or not, this is just 55 miles north of downtown Phoenix, in the town of Crown King, elevation 6000 feet, in the Bradshaw Mountain range. These were taken in December of 2004. There are regions in Arizona that get even more snow.

[115db]

Heres a couple from December last year, back home in Calif.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by Magnum Mike

You hear a lot about how hot summers are in the desert regions of Arizona, but believe it or not, this is just 55 miles north of downtown Phoenix, in the town of Crown King, elevation 6000 feet, in the Bradshaw Mountain range. These were taken in December of 2004. There are regions in Arizona that get even more snow.

That's one of the great things about Arizona - you can pretty much find about any kind of weather you want if you want to travel the state.

[BlueWillowPlate]

I really don't want to ever live again in a state that gets snow, but I have to admit, all these photos really did make me feel nice and cool.
This pic is from a Denver storm in March 2003.
Please take note, Rosie was a very large dog, and she had trouble walking around in that stuff.

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

It's already winter; it's only 68 F right now.

Heavenly for sure.....lucky you.

The first two were on Easter this year. It isn't much, but this is Texas. Actually, there have been years we've had more snow than these photos depict, but I don't have them on my computer.





The next two were taken on January 17, 2007.

[Pixie Dust]

Wow..love these pictures!!! I moved from Illinois almost eight years ago and now live in Miami. One of the big things I miss is my seasons, especially fall and winter. Christmas doesn't feel like Christmaas without snow. Yep, I envy you folks that get to be in a Christmas Wonderland. I'd give up tropical weather any day for a place with snow and I do remember what its like to unbury your car in the morning to go to work. Oh dont forget keeping the water running just a tad so your pipes dont freeze. Oh and lets not forget unburring your car just to have the dilema that you car locks are frozen. Yep, I still miss it.