Through A.D. 2009 December 30:

Days with snow cover: 29
Days with complete snow cover: 17
Total snowfall: 026 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 08 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 08 centimeters
Maximum low temperature: 04º Fahrenheit (-15.5º Celsius)

Slightly less than one inch (about 2 centimeters) of snow accumulated on A.D. 2009 December 27. Two very cold days have left the complete snow cover intact, though the snow is melting slowly today.

I was at my sister-in-law's home the past three days. She lives in the Lake Erie snowbelt, and we received approximately 10 inches of snow in the final 36 hours of our visit. Incredibly, we weren't even in the major snow bands. I'm jealous, for we saw a number of people sledding, skiing, and snowmobiling while we were there. We haven't had enough snow to do any of those things this year. (Both of the storms that dropped 8 centimeters of snow were followed by rapid melting, leaving less than one inch of snow within 12 hours.)

What's the point of living in a (somewhat) cold climate if you rarely get enough snow to do anything?

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2009 December 26:

Days with snow cover: 25
Days with complete snow cover: 14
Total snowfall: 024 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 08 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 08 centimeters
Maximum low temperature: 04º Fahrenheit (-15.5º Celsius)

Well, another Christmas has come and gone. As in years past, this year's Christmas weather was less than ideal. Ironically, Christmas day was the warmest (and the only one with a high temperature above freezing) in the past sixteen days! We started with close-to-complete snow cover. The regular brown patches expanded over the course of the day. It began pouring down rain about 16:00, and the snow cover was almost completely gone by 20:00. As I type this on A.D. 2009 December 26, I can't even see any snow out the window. There's still a little bit out there, but the patches are few and far between. Christmas in Dundee...

Was it a white Christmas? I don't know. For the most part, we had complete snow cover this morning. However, that was gone by the end of the day. The weather was the exact opposite of what you'd want on Christmas: the warmest day in more than two weeks and rainy. I guess I'm going to say "yes" to it being a white Christmas but "hell no" to it feeling like a white Christmas.

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2009 December 18:

Days with snow cover: 17
Days with complete snow cover: 07
Total snowfall: 022 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 08 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 08 centimeters
Maximum low temperature: 04º Fahrenheit (-15.5º Celsius)

Three more days with complete snow cover, though we have less than 5 centimeters on the ground. In some places the snow cover is almost gone despite the fact that our high temperatures have been in the low 20s Fahrenheit. At this point, a white Christmas looks possible, but not definite. We'll probably lose most of our snow in the next week (days are forecast to be sunny with high temperatures in the upper 20s and lower 30s), but there is a chance for a storm on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2009 December 12:

Days with snow cover: 11
Days with complete snow cover: 04
Total snowfall: 018 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 08 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 08 centimeters

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2009 December 09:

Days with snow cover: 08
Days with complete snow cover: 01
Total snowfall: 015 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 08 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 08 centimeters

Eight centimeters of snow and sleet accumulated last night, resulting in a much appreciated day off from school. Despite the storm, which was the largest of the season, the ground is quickly reappearing beneath a rapidly melting blanket of snow. Yeah, it was one of those storms. You know, the kind that drops a bunch of heavy wet snow, then turns to rain and melts almost everything that accumulated. When I woke up this morning it was already above freezing and raining. It certainly tempers the excitement of our first real snow event since the highly irregular mid-October snowfall.

Weather Update

Ahhh, Winter* has finally returned. It snowed unexpectedly today. In addition, today was the first day of the Winter of A.D. 2009/2010 with a high temperature at or below 0º Celsius. (Today's high temperature was about 29º Fahrenheit.) The snowfall was the fourth in the past week, but the first that accumulated. In fact, today's snow cover was the first since A.D. 2009 October 17. Incredibly, we went the entire month of November with no sticking snow. Perhaps just as incredibly, it only snowed three times for a grand total of approximately 45 minutes. Most days during November had high temperatures in the 50s Fahrenheit. The absence of sticking snow in November marked the first time in the six Novembers that I have lived here that has happened.

Through A.D. 2009 December 05:

Days with snow cover: 04
Days with complete snow cover: 00
Total snowfall: 007 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 06 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 06 centimeters

*Note: I capitalize the name of the season Winter knowing that it is grammatically incorrect to do so. However, I believe that it deserves it.