To those from warmer climes, when did you first experience snow? (hottest, night)
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Wow that's something we would like to see more often, 30-40 cm! Last time here was in March 1946, so you Londoners are luckier.
Btw now I understand more your love for cold/snow, you were kinda predisposed.
Lol I grew up in the Yorkshire countryside (which is where I was referring to) - I am not, and never will be a proper Londoner. Here we only got 8cm which is nothing special at all (the last 30+ cm snow depth was in 1963), but the high of -4C we had in the same cold spell has not been equalled since.
I pity the locations that have snowless stretches that go on for years. If I were in that situation I wouldn't be able to stand it. I will say, however, that among such places, the places that experience big totals when it does snow (like 1 foot and up) are vastly superior to the places that just get a fraction of an inch. Although I don't come from a "warm climate" (thank goodness), I'll add in my story for perspective. My first memory of a snowfall comes from when I was 2 years old, but my first snow was actually at birth (I was born in a winter storm) .
First time I saw snow was just before middle school in Pennsylvania, when I moved here from Puerto Rico. Since then, I've lost my tropical heat and sunshine tolerance.
Heh, trust me, snowless winters are nothing to brag about. I never brag I'm from the Caribbean, that place is full of squalor.
The Caribbean is certainly not like Africa though... There are many countries/territories in the Caribbean that seem to be quote well off like Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman islands, aruba, British virgin islands to name a few. Puerto Rico has a per capita income close to Spain and Portugal which I don't consider poor countries.
The first time I saw falling snow was when I was 21 in 2008 in Berlin, but it didn't stick to the ground. My visit to Quebec last December was the first time I actually saw an accumulation of snow.
I was raised in California where you have to drive to the mountains to see snow. I didn't see snow falling for the first time until I was 13 years old. A very rare snowstorm hit the San Francisco Bay Area overnight. I remember being awakened by the phone ringing at the crack of dawn one Sunday morning and hearing my stepmother call out, "Snow!" I leaped out of bed and ran to my bedroom window. The morning sky was a strange shade of flat leaden gray that I had never seen before, and tiny white snowflakes were drifting down. It looked like slow motion to me as I had only ever seen rain fall. I was fascinated by this magical spectacle, which as others have said, felt like being in a movie.
The snow only lasted for an hour or so and then stopped. When the sun came out later, the light frosting of snowfall on everyone's lawns melted fast. But in the meantime every kid in the neighborhood was out there playing and trying to make little snowmen. My best friend told me she was disappointed that her parents made her go to church instead, and she missed out on all the fun.
The Caribbean is certainly not like Africa though... There are many countries/territories in the Caribbean that seem to be quote well off like Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman islands, aruba, British virgin islands to name a few. Puerto Rico has a per capita income close to Spain and Portugal which I don't consider poor countries.
Sent you a DM so we wouldn't veer the topic off the cliff
I was 26 the first time I saw any snow at all and that same year I saw the leaves change for the first time. So around 2007 .When I was a child I begged my parents to take me to see snow , every year. They never would so when I got married and my husband was from new England he took me up one year and we got to see it. We live just about as far south as you can get on the west coast of Fl so to even be in the next state to have a chance at seeing leaves and snow it would be a 7 1/2 hour drive.
Now that I have a daughter I vowed she will grow up with seasons. To this day I have never ridden on a sled and I feel like I really missed out on snowball fights and jumping in leaves. We are moving back to NE in May , she'll be 3 1/2 then and I hope shell love it.
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I leaped out of bed and ran to my bedroom window. The morning sky was a strange shade of flat leaden gray that I had never seen before, and tiny white snowflakes were drifting down. It looked like slow motion to me as I had only ever seen rain fall. I was fascinated by this magical spectacle, which as others have said, felt like being in a movie. 
