Why do Xmas ads have snow in them

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I’m 43 years old and never remember snow at Christmas. Had years when it snowed around New Year’s Day.

Having spent 2 Christmasses in Australia, and it was when Christmas cards were still a thing, they typically depicted cartoon Australian animals - koalas, kangaroos, emus with Christmas hats, usually on the beach or barbecuing.

OP, I have always wondered the same. Not that much snow in freaking Bethlehem , is there ? Also, 25th of December is right at the begin of winter, not that is the coldest month of the year.

Wasn't Charles Dickens responsible for creating the image of snow at Christmas? I think it's quite a nice association, even though I've never seen it.

Because they would look a bit shit if they had rain, despite being more authentic.

I’ve had several snowy Christmas Days/weeks in Lancashire. Sometimes it’s been blizzarding so bad that the drive back home on 27th has been scary. But also some nice Christmas card style snow on the day itself. Not always, but certainly not the stuff of myth.

I was born in 1964, and I remember a snowy Christmas. It's always on things like cards, etc., etc as it's a nice image to see whether it happens or not in real life. We do not seem to get the winters we used to these days.

I'm the same age as you, and we regularly had snow at Christmas when I was a kid. I think it depends where in the country you are. I'm in South Wales and it very rarely used to snow here, and almost never at Christmas, but we'd spend most Christmasses at my Grandparents in Birmingham, and they'd often have snow over Christmas, often quite a lot of it.

@ShowOfHands So is my local garden centre! Does it begin with an F?? What is it with the rats?!!

You've made me think of my all time favourite carol, set in a freezing cold Bethlehem! ‘In The Bleak Mid-Winter’.
(According to the old pre-Christian calendar we generally adhere to in Ireland, that is indeed midwinter, as the season runs Nov- Jan, and as the climate changes, these older seasonal markers fit very well, once more )

Even when Christmas Day is all torrential rain, or even sunshine, it’s always deep snow and crisp air, in the idealised day in my head. (Not the 1963 blizzards I recall from childhood perhaps, but certainly snow is as important as Yule logs, holly, and ivy to me, in my fantasy Christmas. Proper Winter)

I don't think we need too much realism for major feast days like this, after all it’s more than just any old Bank Holiday 🙂

Best and most succinct comment on the thread.

There was one year in the late 60’s when it did start snowing just as we arrived home on Christmas Eve and it started to thaw on the day after Boxing Day. That was perfect and has never been repeated in my lifetime.

Because it’s magical

Or seems it

S/W Yorks boundaries. We’ve loved here for 25 years. We’ve had about 5 or 6 white Christmases.

Snow usually falls in Jan/Feb

Dec 2010, we had heavy snow in London. It had cleared by xmas day though

Come to Scotland, it's already snowing up North.

When I was little I remember advent calendars and Christmas cards being a lot more traditional / religious with Nativity scenes, camels, desert scenes on them.

Come to Canada. We had four inches of snow overnight!

We had a White Christmas about 15 years ago. It might well have been 2012, which others have mentioned.

My father and stepmother were supposed to come to me for Christmas. They had given up driving by then, so I used to collect them (they lived in Gloucestershire and I’m in Surrey).

I had to phone on Christmas Eve and tell them I couldn’t come because we had had too much snow and the roads were not safe.

Yes but not everywhere at the same time! OP might live on the south coast while you may live up some scottish mountain 😂