Fun video - thanks for posting.

that they've never seen snow

i love snow. it's always been a happy part of my life

i'm all grown up and i still get happily excited when it snows

i hate hot days...like today...

I'm 52 right now, but if I hadn't gone skiing a couple of times when I was a teenager, I'd've never seen snow, either.

However. Husband's story. He grew up in western MA and his Ukrainian born grandfather was living with the family. One March a standard New England nor'easterly was doing its thing -- high winds, snow up to the window sills. Somebody said, "That's a lot of snow." From the fire side the old man rumbled, "That is not snow."

And a couple sounded like Northern Europe. Are there places there that don't have snow?

Australia and New Zealand. One from South Africa...not a lot of snow there.

My kids were sick of snow by the time they were ten. I still love the REAL first snow of the season; I believe it will be in September this year. Looks like we are having an early fall.

i'm up in fort collins and am loving it. i'm also all about the afternoon storms we've been having, that was the norm when i was a kid and they seem to have become less and less frequent.

Then, as you know, a huge dry spell. I'm lovin' it, too. Betcha we're in for a furious winter. Prepare.

and i'm happy we're back in that pattern.

(Background: I'm the family mathematician for stats. Spouse is theoretical maths, but if it requires either accounting or statistical analysis, I get the job. Also, I have the strong Google fu and yes, in fact, we are this damn geeky that we spend a lazy Sunday of a holiday weekend doing back of the envelope stats.)

Spouse asked if this August was wetter than recent, so we pulled historical data from NOAA. Average and mean for August since the 1890s for Boulder county is around 2 inches (+/-.25), but the last decade has been drier Augusts and wetter Septembers. This August is running 2.78 inches through yesterday (and I think we did get more than .22 this afternoon, so maybe 3 for the month), which is higher than mean, but not in the outrageous range. (Highs are 5-7 inches; lows are in the 0.0x inches.) August has been running noticeably dry since the early 2000s, though.

This year is ahead of schedule for total precipitation; average and mean are around 19.5 inches for the year, (+/- 1 inch) and we're already at 18.8 inches, with 4 usually wet months to go. (Duh. Because the bendy apple tree out front didn't already tell me that.)

It's kind of nice to have a year when I'm not worried about the reservoirs, the fires and the health of the whole watershed. And not unhappy about the daily storms at all. They've been lovely, especially when the atmosphere gets excited. As long as September doesn't decide to reprise last year...

We seem to be at the ENSO peak/trough (I don't know enough about the El Niño cycle to recall if Colorado gets wet when the cycle is strong or weak, but I know that the ENSO 21 year cycle is important) so this may be the pattern for a couple more years.

but i think we are more or less on track for the year. this summer feels more like it did when i was a kid than in recent memory.

What a wonderland a nice fresh snowfall is. I'd love to see it for the first time again.

I saw one in a movie yesterday, and being here in drought-stricken California, the rain seemed like something from the past.

Sticking his head out the door with this big ole grin….. "Eaets MAH FIRRST Sna-OH!"

Sorry transplants and snowbirds ! I've been in this subtropical paradise forever, so snow is a cool thing to me ! I haven't personally seen appreciable snow since 1977, so we're overdue !

these same people would have to -25° or colder temperatures (not including windchill).

I find that the majority of people around here who piss and moan about it have to drive considerably long distances to work.

Then we have the ones that hate to shovel it

of living in New England, I never get tired of the first snowfall of the season.

So I can totally get why those people are so thrilled.

It really is magical. When I lived in the city, it muffled the sounds of the city.

Here in the woods it gets quiet enough to hear the shussing noise as the flakes fall on each other.

Sometimes it's full of ice crystals that sparkle like glitter in the moon/sunlight.

I'm OK with snow up until about the end of January or so.


Before that, though...it's magic

but i dread the first few snowfalls. i live in a college town, so not only do a lot of the students have no idea wtf they're doing, the residents all seem to forget how to drive in it over the summer.

we got a very rare snowfall when we were at school one day. Every kid in the school ran outside, screaming, and most of them started rolling around on the ground. I'd moved from a snowy climate so it wasn't quite as exotic to me.

My father was driving with me in the mountains and we arrived at the snow level so it was covering the ground and on the trees, just like a beautiful post card. I got so exciting that I demanded that he stop, which he did. Then we went to play in the snow. He took a step on the snow and sank up to his knee and I thought that was the funniest thing I had ever seen. We made snowballs and threw them at the tree trunks. It was wonderful. After playing for a while he wanted to move on so I quickly made a snow ball and insisted on putting it in the glove compartment as a keepsake. After a bit of an argument he gave in and let me.

It's one of my clearest childhood memories and it invariably gives me a lift.

it snowed about 3 inches, sort of a big deal - we usually get a dusting of snow in some areas of town, but not this much in that area. I lived in an apartment complex and three guys who were either from Mexico or further south in Central America had a great time. They were late teens/early 20s and made a (small) snowman and had a snowball fight. I had just moved from Colorado so was unimpressed, but had fun watching them have fun.

Just joking.

I am guessing the vast majority of people will never see snow in their lifetimes.

I wouldn't move just because of the snow.

Three puerto rican girls had never seen snow before. We told them it was like sand, but you dont want to get it trapped next to your skin because it gets too hot.

And that is how I got three puerto ricans girls to jump into snow in their swimsuits.

Good times...

It never rains in Lima much less snows. The driver stopped and let the get off to play in the snow. So much happiness from just a little snow, it was great to watch.

they can show their joy, glee and excitement by digging my car out

I live in the Hudson Valley, NY now, where we get 3-4 good storms (10 inches or more) most years and about a dozen or so light snows (3-6 inches) plus lots of dustings. I have lived in Oregon in the Cascades where it would snow September through May and the snowpack at higher elevations would not melt until mid-June. I have lived in a few beach towns in SoCal where it "almost" never snows. Even now, first snow of the year, I get excited. I go outside and make a couple of snowballs. toss a few at the big white pine on my lawn and see how bad my arm and aim are gettign as I age, then take one snowball inside to toss at my wife. Snow is a miracle. It makes me feel young again.