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New Hampshire was supposed to get about 12-18 inches Saturday night into Sunday. We got about... 6.
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I once got a day off school because it snowed three inches. Which was good for me, as I only lived a hundred yards from the school and could very easily have walked it.
I told a friend of mine who lived in Colorado about it, and she didn't stop laughing for five minutes. Then she told me that the previous week they'd had six feet of snow, and nothing had closed anywhere.
I told a friend of mine who lived in Colorado about it, and she didn't stop laughing for five minutes. Then she told me that the previous week they'd had six feet of snow, and nothing had closed anywhere.
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How much snow do you guys even get over the winter? I've a friend from right outside of Dublin who once told me they closed the airport for 6 hours due to about 1 cm worth of snow. Is this an exaggeration, or is it really that uncommon?Graham Kennedy wrote:I once got a day off school because it snowed three inches. Which was good for me, as I only lived a hundred yards from the school and could very easily have walked it.
I told a friend of mine who lived in Colorado about it, and she didn't stop laughing for five minutes. Then she told me that the previous week they'd had six feet of snow, and nothing had closed anywhere.
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1 cm seems an exaggeration, but I can certainly believe a light dusting closed down the airport.Bryan Moore wrote:How much snow do you guys even get over the winter? I've a friend from right outside of Dublin who once told me they closed the airport for 6 hours due to about 1 cm worth of snow. Is this an exaggeration, or is it really that uncommon?Graham Kennedy wrote:I once got a day off school because it snowed three inches. Which was good for me, as I only lived a hundred yards from the school and could very easily have walked it.
I told a friend of mine who lived in Colorado about it, and she didn't stop laughing for five minutes. Then she told me that the previous week they'd had six feet of snow, and nothing had closed anywhere.
On average London gets 16 days of snow a year, totalling 10 inches. Up north Aberdeen gets 34 days totalling 45.4 inches.
Plenty of places I've lived have gone years without getting any noticeable snow at all. In fact it's maybe three or four years since the town I'm living in has had snow. In Liverpool where I grew up it almost never snowed - I remember it happening maybe two or three times in the nearly 20 years I lived there.
One measure is the "White Christmas". A white christmas was officially one in which even a single snowflake falls on the weather station of the roof of the London Weather centre during the 24 hours of christmas day. This happens in 6% of years. These days it's not so London-centric, and a white christmas is one in which snow falls anywhere in the UK, in any amount, during that day. Under that measure they happen about 50% of the time.
In fact, there's a fun fact about this. London doesn't often get snow on christmas, right? Well as it turns out, in the 1800s it snowed on christmas day six times in a row. And those six years just happened to fall when Charles Dickens was a child. So Dickens's memories of christmas were that it pretty much always snowed, and snow was this magical thing that made christmas better.
So of course, when he wrote about christmas he always wrote it that way - that christmas was a time of wonderful beautiful snow. And that is why the western world has that view of christmas, why almost every TV 'christmas episode' features everyone going "awww" as the snow comes down. All because of a completely unrealistic fluke of history.
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Was that actually snow falling on Dickens or was it soot from the thousands of coal and wood burning ovens going throughout London?Graham Kennedy wrote:1 cm seems an exaggeration, but I can certainly believe a light dusting closed down the airport.Bryan Moore wrote:How much snow do you guys even get over the winter? I've a friend from right outside of Dublin who once told me they closed the airport for 6 hours due to about 1 cm worth of snow. Is this an exaggeration, or is it really that uncommon?Graham Kennedy wrote:I once got a day off school because it snowed three inches. Which was good for me, as I only lived a hundred yards from the school and could very easily have walked it.
I told a friend of mine who lived in Colorado about it, and she didn't stop laughing for five minutes. Then she told me that the previous week they'd had six feet of snow, and nothing had closed anywhere.
On average London gets 16 days of snow a year, totalling 10 inches. Up north Aberdeen gets 34 days totalling 45.4 inches.
Plenty of places I've lived have gone years without getting any noticeable snow at all. In fact it's maybe three or four years since the town I'm living in has had snow. In Liverpool where I grew up it almost never snowed - I remember it happening maybe two or three times in the nearly 20 years I lived there.
One measure is the "White Christmas". A white christmas was officially one in which even a single snowflake falls on the weather station of the roof of the London Weather centre during the 24 hours of christmas day. This happens in 6% of years. These days it's not so London-centric, and a white christmas is one in which snow falls anywhere in the UK, in any amount, during that day. Under that measure they happen about 50% of the time.
In fact, there's a fun fact about this. London doesn't often get snow on christmas, right? Well as it turns out, in the 1800s it snowed on christmas day six times in a row. And those six years just happened to fall when Charles Dickens was a child. So Dickens's memories of christmas were that it pretty much always snowed, and snow was this magical thing that made christmas better.
So of course, when he wrote about christmas he always wrote it that way - that christmas was a time of wonderful beautiful snow. And that is why the western world has that view of christmas, why almost every TV 'christmas episode' features everyone going "awww" as the snow comes down. All because of a completely unrealistic fluke of history.
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Real snow, lol. One reason Londoners thought snow was so fantastic was exactly because London was incredibly filthy back then. Immediately after a snowfall was the only time you could ever walk through the streets and see it looking clean and bright.
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Bryan Moore wrote:I once told a girl I was going to give her 4" and gridlock. She didn't cope with that sort of thing well...IanKennedy wrote:It's snowing in Oxford and for once it's settled. Now, this is UK snow, you know the kind of stuff that after 3 hours has given us about 4" and gridlock. We don't cope with this sort of thing well.
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That's because when Dickens was a boy it did show in London over xmas four years in a row. That's pretty much the only reason xmas in the UK is thought to be snowy. In actuality it hardly ever snows in the UK over xmas. You might get some in February but even then most years there won't be. More recently we do sometimes get some.Nutso wrote:Various "A Christmas Carol" movies made me think the U.K. is a wintery wonderland.IanKennedy wrote:It's snowing in Oxford and for once it's settled. Now, this is UK snow, you know the kind of stuff that after 3 hours has given us about 4" and gridlock. We don't cope with this sort of thing well.
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CongratulationsTeaos wrote:Just had the NZ awards for my travel company. I managed to sweep top land seller, top air seller and top over all.
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Dude, awesome!Teaos wrote:Just had the NZ awards for my travel company. I managed to sweep top land seller, top air seller and top over all.
Not a bad haul.
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I'm on some forum, can't remember the name right now, but one of the regular commenters is "Chakat Blackstar". I someones wonder if it's him.Bryan Moore wrote:A shame we don't have a "Where are they now?" section... I rather miss Granitehewer (though I've admittedly not spoken to him since about April of 2010) and I'm just curious what ever became of Chakat post-ban. If I recall, he was pretty young and immature - wonder what 9 years did for the man (cat).
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We can only hope that if it is, he's learned some lesson.Angharrad wrote:I'm on some forum, can't remember the name right now, but one of the regular commenters is "Chakat Blackstar". I someones wonder if it's him.Bryan Moore wrote:A shame we don't have a "Where are they now?" section... I rather miss Granitehewer (though I've admittedly not spoken to him since about April of 2010) and I'm just curious what ever became of Chakat post-ban. If I recall, he was pretty young and immature - wonder what 9 years did for the man (cat).
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