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.

😂

Christmas in the UK is actually late autumn/ very early winter so despite the traditional Christmassy scenes, a white Christmas in this part of the world is actually hugely unlikely. We generally get the most snow in mid/late winter so February/early March is the norm. Saying that, we had snow here in late November last year so you never know!! ☃️

Not gonna happen. I remember white Christmas when I was a child (it was probably 20 years ago) and it was in Poland. We couldn't visit my grandma, because there was so much snow cars couldn't get through it, roads were completely blocked. We'll get snow in Yorkshire, probably in January and February for a few days.

I remember that too - more of a pain than a pleasure tbh.

Well. At least I got some pics of it with my outdoor decs. 😁 it was SOMETHING I guess.

I would love a white Christmas but in reality we normally go away to the Caribbean in February and it's usually snowing on the 3hr drive back from the airport!

If we can get enough snow we are snowed in that would be amazing, reality is a very wet and slow trip to work!

What I mostly remember is having walk miles in the snow to my elderly mum’s house with her food shopping.

I never said there weren't ANY downsides.

Ah well probably won't happen anyway.

I don’t want snow as I’ll be thinking about getting to work safely (HCP).

Don’t get me wrong, if it happened this year I’d love it as I am now free of caring responsibilities and retired so would have no worries about needing to get to work!

I’m not sure if I’ve had a white Christmas ever in my life? That I can remember any way! I’m in my 30’s. I’m southeast and coastal so it rarely snows here. I would like one though yes!

I love snow and although very skint still hope for it! Plenty times we get snowless days that are colder than when it's snowing anyway. I feel cold and need heating on when it's damp and dreary too

Very true indeed. Good point. It's pretty damn miserable today.

weve had a few white Christmases. Love it!

Well overall a more favourable response than I hoped for.

Bring on the snow 🌨❄☃️

I have no plans to go anywhere this Christmas so I wouldn't mind.

While I can understand that many people love snow (not me, but we're not all the same!), | am always puzzled by the idea that it ought to be white at Christmas in particular. As pp have pointed out, it's barely even seasonal in the UK; and it's unlikely to have been snowing in Bethlehem. And Christmas in Australia is in midsummer, yet I'm told that they decorate their houses with fake snow. Some sort of marketing campaign by the Christmas card manufacturers?

Its likely because during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries most of Northern Europe including Britain was in the grip of "the little ice age"

Not only did it snow every year from about November on but it got so cold the Thames would freeze solid. Big fire were lit on the surface and annual Frost Fairs held on the ice became a thing.

This is where the traditional snowy scenes depicted on Victorian Christmas cards etc. come from. It was just what Christmas was like then.