In past winters, the season would begin with a few brief snows that melted off, sometimes before hitting the ground. Then we'd have a big snow, requiring shoveling or plowing, but it would be followed by what we called Indian summer, which is probably a racist term these days. I don't think that's going to happen this year, and it didn't happen last year. The snow is here and I don't think it's going away until spring.
I guess if one lives with snow long enough they could get used to it. But I'm having a hard time tolerating the colder winters here in the South now...so I sure don't even want to think of having to get used to snow.
This picture is going from central Oregon over the pass into western Oregon, back in 1928. I sure would not have wanted to make that trip, and wondering how two cars could even pass each other on that narrow of a road !
We have a bunch of snow here now. Not nearly as much as in the photo above but it snowed pretty heavily a couple of days ago, and all night last night. I had to get up to move our car (with slippers, no socks, short-sleeve shirt, and no gloves or jacket) so that the plow guy could get through. Yeah, I suppose I could have dressed more appropriately but he was honking his horn.
A light dusting of snow causes chaos in Britain. We ground to a halt for this last winter.No idea why it's upside down!
I thought maybe you were in Australia, where I am told everything is upside down, being on the other side of the world and all. I right-sided it for you.
It's so cold here now that the snow is frozen solid. The positives to that are that I can walk across the top of it without sinking through, and it's too cold to snow. I don't know about that last part, as a scientific fact, but we rarely have snow when it's this cold. The negatives are obvious - it's cold and cold isn't comfortable. I don't know how it's going to rain on Thursday, in 20-degree temperatures.