Snow where you live - love it or hate it?

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Snow where you live - love it or hate it?



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Steven Lord
Steven Lord on 18 Feb 2025 at 21:38
I like snow unless I have to travel through it to get to and/or from work or to do grocery shopping.
Now ice, on the other hand, especially walking our dogs ... the pups may or may not enjoy skating, but I'm not a fan. I would prefer not landing on my butt because the dog pulled on the leash just as I went to take a step on a slick surface.
Chen Lin
Chen Lin on 18 Feb 2025 at 15:52
I love snow because of skiing. I hate snow because of snow shoveling. I hope there is an option as 'love & hate at the same time'.
DGM
DGM on 17 Feb 2025 at 17:18
I don't like being cold, but I don't mind the snow. Though I might be frustrated, impeded, or harmed by aspects of the weather, I'm losing my ability to justify judging the whimsy of large-scale thermodynamics. Sometimes it's just interesting to see what nature can do. There's something to appreciate, even if it's awful at the same time.
John D'Errico
John D'Errico on 17 Feb 2025 at 17:01
I have a love/hate relationship with the blasted stuff. Leaning towards the latter right now, after having spent spending the last 2 hours plowing and shoveling in 20 MPS plus winds. Very pretty, yes. And once my toes warm up, I might appreciate that aspect too.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 19 Feb 2025 at 2:24
20 miles per second???
Steven Lord
Steven Lord on 19 Feb 2025 at 16:45
20 meters per second is just under 45 miles per hour according to Google. According to weather.gov the highest gust speed in Boston on the 17th was 61 miles per hour (wtih a highest wind speed of 41 miles per hour) so John getting 45 MPH winds isn't out of the question.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 19 Feb 2025 at 17:51
I did some checking around. Meters per second is abbreviated m/s . "mps" and "MPS" appear to be "miles per second" in everything I found.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 16 Feb 2025 at 16:54
I don't hate it, but I also dislike the first snowfall. The first snowfall is a reminder that we are about to go through 5-ish months of snow on the ground, and thus that outside activity will be significantly curtailed.
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 17 Feb 2025 at 19:20
I understand. For me it starts even earlier. When the trees first start changing color it's kind of depressing because it signals to me that we're about to start 6 months of cold temperatures, barren trees, dead plants, dirty cars, and gray skies.
When I lived in San Diego (which doesn't get snow), snow was fun because it was something we could just go visit to ski in or play in, but we didn't have to live in it for months. Every day of the year was perfect weather.
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 19 Feb 2025 at 2:34
Our grey skys tend to be mid October to mid November; it is the time of year when my Seasonal Affective Disorder kicks in.
Winter here tends to be a mix of clear skies, and overcast days that are not so grey, and overcast grey days. The sunny days tend to be colder: clouds tend to hold in the heat. The worst days tend to be overcast, holding in the heat that allows snow. The clear days tend to be too cold to snow much.
(Although we are south of Canada's sixth largest lake, the weather tends to blow from the west or north west, so not so much Lake Effects here. And besides, the Lake freezes up pretty solid so not much humidity is available to be picked up from it.)
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