To hope for a white Christmas?

[MistyGreenAndBlue]

Yes I know. I'm totally unreasonable. Cost of living. Excessive heating costs etc. I'm affected too. I'm hardly rolling in it.

I KNOW I should be hoping for a mild winter BUT I just cant help it. I love me a proper snowy Christmas.

Just a few days of snow will do me. I'm not asking for the whole of December. Not that what I would like will affect the weather either way.

Am I the only one?

Prepared to be told I'm an awful, selfish bitch. This IS AIBU after all 😂

Goes without saying, I hope, that this is lighthearted.

It never snows at Christmas, though, in the main, so it’s unreasonable to expect it.

I live near ski resorts so also hoping for a white Christmas!

Yeah, White Christmas are thing of a past, but I really know what you mean. I miss white Christmas

You will get lots of people agreeing with you in the Christmas section

It has been a long time I guess. I'm not really expecting it tbf.

I always want (and never get) a white Christmas but to be honest as much as I love snow, I don't really want it to snow at all over the Winter due to the fuel bill crisis.

Having said that it doesn't make you a bad person 😁

I love the idea of a white Christmas
But lots of people travel on Christmas morning and with the recent crappy years we have had
I would much rather be able to get to my loved ones and then it can snow as much as it wants and we can all be together

More likely to be a White Easter.
🐰

Sounds perfect

That would be amazing if we had a white Christmas.

Thank you 😊

2009 was a white Christmas in SE (sticks in memory has I had a newborn and it was quite nice to hunker down). Christmas 2010 still had snow on the ground from snow the week before. Since then it’s been mid jan. but yes, I reckon after the last few years we’ve all earned it!

Oh I've had that here. That sucks!

I was in the Highlands of Scotland that year. The snow was epic!

Apparently the last white Christmas in the U.K. was last year… Met Office defines it as one snowflake falling anywhere in the U.K. 6% of weather stations reported a snowflake but only 1% reported any snow lying.

It always snows at some point when it just feels like a burden. Beast from the East was the early March. February in 2021. That crazy snow in 09?10? was a pisstake, snow on and off from November through January here....with a dramatic but brief hiatus on Christmas. 🙄

If it's going to snow - Christmas would be brilliant.

I see we're at 50/50. Better than I expected 😁👍🏼

Ha! They can call it what they like. That's not a white Christmas to me.

That's just for the bookies.

We have already had our first significant snowfall.

Snow is absurd round here. No one is ever ready for it.

I include myself in that.

Streets are full of people flopping over like penguins while their trying to get to work.

And then you get the people who shake their head and say, “It’s too cold for snow…”

Is that real? Snow is frozen water. The colder, they better, surely?

46 and I’ve never seen a white Christmas!

Yes. It's never too cold for snow. There's no such thing. It's a myth. Makes me laugh though.

not snowed here on the south coast for about 5 years - and as someone from a very cold country I'm exceedingly grateful.

Brits generally do not know how to drive when there's even a bit of frost on the ground let alone snow and ice. 5 year back it took us 6 hours to drive 7 miles home from work as cars were all over the road and some abandoned at an angle near the side of the road.

Then there's the shovelling of snow - ok Brits don't tend to do this as they expect the snow to melt quite fast. Where I used to live you would be fined if you didn't clear your portion of the sidewalk so it's still an automatic thing for me. Plus if you clear the snow from the door step you're not tracking in ice and muck - I've seen shops mopping up inside their doors when all they needed to do clear the snow away outside.

And if you do have a lot of snow that lingers there's then the melt and refreeze that results in puddles of slush that you need to walk through - ruins your footwear and freezes your toes!!!

I like the UK climate - I like that it's not that cold and normally not all that very hot either.

Oh and actually it can be too cold for snow. But that means such an incredibly low temperature that the clouds don't form to provide the precipitation. Something like about -200c which we're never likely to ever see.

I’m hoping for snow, and lots of it!