No snow for Christmas?

harls · #1 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 8:41 PM**

Certainly looks like it for Eastern Canada. In the past 5 years I've been living out here (Montreal, Ottawa), it's never been as springlike so late in December as it is now.

right now it's 7° and partly cloudy as I look out my second floor office window. I'm sure glad I invested in those new rims for my winter tires this year. Oh well.

What's the chance of a green Christmas where you live?

SteelTown · #2 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 8:46 PM**

Suppose to be 9°C this Sunday at Hamilton. So chances of snow during Christmas are next to nil.

habsfan · #3 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 8:58 PM**

bah! I'm not worried, we've had a few close calls in the last 10 years, but we always manage to get a dump of a few centimeters a few days before X-mas!

mersar · #4 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:01 PM**

Friday - Sunny. Low minus 7. High plus 2. Saturday - Sunny. Low minus 5. High plus 4. Sunday - Sunny. Low minus 4. High plus 2.
I take that as not much of a chance for Calgary area either. Possibly a light dusting but nothing more if that.

circle33 · #5 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

What's the chance of a green Christmas where you live?

Zilch. We've had record amounts of snow already. That said we're quite a bit warmer than normal right now, just not snow meltin' warm.

Riise · #6 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:05 PM**

Dreams of a white Christmas fade with forecasts

The probability of seeing a White Christmas in the 1960s was:

• Calgary: 73 per cent
• Charlottetown: 93 per cent
• Edmonton 100 per cent
• Toronto: 60 per cent
• Montreal: 80 per cent

But the chances have dropped across the board, and in the past decade the probabilities are:

• Calgary: 47 per cent
• Charlottetown: 67 per cent
• Edmonton: 73 per cent
• Toronto: 33 per cent
• Montreal: 67 per cent

Link to full story.

MolsonExport · #7 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:07 PM**

Good ol' global warming. Sure, it still snows, and gets cold quite often. But those warm spells during the winter have intensified (ridiculous highs of like 12-15 C) and multiplied (every couple of weeks, it seems). And Winter comes later, and vanishes earlier. This would all be good, except it is an indicator of Global Warming, which will eventually make molehills out of all the disasters faced by humanity beforehand.

drew · #8 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:08 PM**

It'll be white in Winnipeg - as per usual.

Kevin_foster · #9 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:21 PM**

It was like this in Edmonton last year. I remember it being 8*C here on XMAS day!! We could have worn shorts

big W · #10 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kevin_foster

It was like this in Edmonton last year. I remember it being 8*C here on XMAS day!! We could have worn shorts

I know in Feb my friend was still riding his motorcycle and I was walking around in a t shirt last winter.

caltrane74 · #11 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 9:59 PM**

Itz freaky freaky

someone123 · #12 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 10:12 PM**

It's been mostly cold here. It's colder in Halifax than it is in Whitehorse right now.

Blitz · #13 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 10:15 PM**

6 of the past 7 Christmases have been white in Windsor but this one is looking like it'll be green, actually brown is more like it.

Kilgore Trout · #14 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 10:33 PM**

green christmas here in montreal. it snowed barely a centimetre yesterday and now the temperature's up to 5 degrees above freezing; it's forecast to be 3 degrees on christmas day.

not that i'm complaining! since i grew up in calgary, snowless christmases are normal for me.

caltrane74 · #15 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 10:37 PM**

the grass is slowly turning green. I predict by January it should be totally brown.

Not that itz cold here, I guess lack of rain is slowly killing our grass.

MTLskyline · #16 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 11:19 PM**

I think its supposed to rain on Christmas here..

At least its better than getting -20C

vid · #17 Posted: **Dec 20, 2006, 11:43 PM**

5% in Tundra Bay. We might get a dusting of snow (>5cm) on Saturday, but I doubt it will stick. It will probably go up above zero on Sunday or Monday, clearing most of it away. We have less snow now than we did in mid-October, and no one is in the Christmas Spirit. There are much less lights up this year than last. Add that to the shorter days, and it makes for a very sad Christmas.

We sure are living up to our Tundra stereotype. Not so much the cold, but the dry. There are still active fires out there.

SpongeG · #18 Posted: **Dec 21, 2006, 1:18 AM**

Vancouver has a 10% chance of a white christmas

I can only think of 1 that we have had in 15 years

Calgarian · #19 Posted: **Dec 21, 2006, 2:20 AM**

I can't even remember the last white Christmas Calgary had.

mersar · #20 Posted: **Dec 21, 2006, 2:32 AM**

2 or 3 years ago. I remember driving home from Okotoks in a blizzard with guys in big trucks speeding past me doing 110 down the #2 while I was doing 60 and barely sticking to the road.