When I woke up early this morning, the light outside looked far brighter than it should have at that time of the morning. I went out and looked - it had snowed!
When the Sun came up (somewhere), we had the proverbial Winter Wonderland.
Snow at The Ranch is not unheard of, but not super common either. We had 3"/7.6 cm at the height of the snowfall - just enough to enjoy, not too much to overwhelm (I am sure not terribly impressive to my neighbors in Alta Canada or to the Northeast, but it is quite a lot to me).
It seems I got my White Christmas after all.
Wow, that looks great. Down here in south Texas, snow fall is extremely rare, about three times in half a century. And then, just a light dusting.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely looks like Christmas in your neck of the woods. Enjoy.
Thank you! It will usually snow to this extent once or twice a Winter. The snow will stay for one or two days - it is almost the perfect way for it, especially if you do not care to remove it.
DeleteI am happy to see it as the rivers and lakes need it, as do the water table and the soil/plants in general (we are on a well here, so I am actively interested in the rain and snow fall).
Thanks for stopping by!
Right now we are probably tied, TB. All our snow melted and turned into ice in the last heat wave.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good post. Up here, it is all too easy to forget how wonderful snow is.
Glen, it was (and still is) novel enough to me that I get excited about it every time I see it. In a way, the Ranch has about the perfect climate: some cold, some hot, no humidity. That is hard to beat.
DeleteI wouldn't bet on you having a white Christmas day on the Ranch.
ReplyDeleteWe get quite a bit more snow but white Christmas day's here have been a crap shoot with global warming. Probably slightly less than a 50% chance would be my guess. To date, we haven't yet had our first snowfall though some has fallen less than 100 miles to the north already. Just as well as they are forecasting 70 mph winds all afternoon here so any snow we did have would end up a long way away.
I am pretty sure it will be gone long before Christmas Ed, although one or two ice patches may survive under trees. Overall it is an infrequent occurrence, however.
DeleteWell it looks like a veritable blizzard to this southern girl. Will temps keep it on the ground through Christmas? We should be in the mid-70s the rest of the week.
ReplyDeleteKelly, it will like not. Temperatures are holding it here today but rain is in the forecast for the next few days. Ultimately this is the perfect sort of snow: pretty, here for a few days, gone.
DeleteYesterday I read another blog about having a garbage truck break down outside his house and leak unbelievably foul liquid from the back as it was towed away (he's somewhere in Florida and it was 85F). I had to make this comment:
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to be grateful for the six inches of snow we got last night. Due for a repeat performance tomorrow.
I got up around 3 AM to get the woodstove going, and the log trucks were heading out in force. They love frozen roads over muddy slop. And then around 7 AM, saw the school bus go by--it takes more than a few inches of white fluff to shut things down here.
Once again, I'm ever so grateful that I don't HAVE to go anywhere.
Greg, it is remarkable how different locations react to weather. In the South, a snowstorm can shut things down after not much snow whereas the North snickers; contrariwise, heat in the locations that do not experience it can shut down things down while South wonders what is up. We come to best deal with the things we deal with regularly, I suppose.
DeleteI am grateful that, thanks to remote work, I too do not have to leave and can just work away and feed the fire.
I've lived most of my life in southern Oregon with a climate described as "Four distinct seasons; all of them mild". Now in our retirement our climate is a bit harsh at times, but it always reminds me of a great quote out of Minnesota: "Between the mosquitos in summer and the ice in the winter it tends to keep the rifraff out."
DeleteGreg - This reminds me of a similar situation at The Ranch, not of climate but of distance: We are some miles from the nearest "small" town where I grew up. People move here thinking that being away from it all will be grand; then they find out that "away from it all" means "away from it ALL". There are an inevitable series of homes for sale in the area. It tends to keep down population growth.
DeleteWe've had 78" of snow at our place since the first 19" of wet snow in late September which broke a lot of the trees. The temp's been below zero pretty much for the last five or six weeks, too.
ReplyDeleteThat's all to say that it's easy for us here in the mountains of Alaska to forget how wondrous snow can be for those who don't see it often. Enjoy!
Reverend, outside of your Iditarod updates every year, one of my truly guilty blog pleasures is following your snow fall. It simply stuns me both in quantity and what passes (to a lowlander) for easy living temperatures (I always laugh reading about your windows open at 25 F).
DeleteI have to admit I only see enough to enjoy it. Heat, on the other hand...
Oh it's beautiful. We are still waiting our first snowfall (predicted for tomorrow - fingers crossed.) Pour yourself a cup of hot tea and enjoy every minute of it :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, I have been enjoying it immensely Lady Locust, all the more the fact I do not have to leave the house and can sit at the fire and look at it.
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