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.