White Christmas looks unlikely
There’s snow down Monday morning, but this journalist is already dreading how a warm and rainy Christmas Eve will deprive us of a white Christmas.
It’s a mystery to me why this matters so much, but every year, articles come out panicking about the likelihood of snow on the ground at Christmas. Is it so central to general happiness?
mare 11:27 on 2020-12-21 Permalink
Blame Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby. And the fact that in large parts of the US and Europe snow around Christmas is a possibility but doesn’t happen very often. Snow is very nice in these dark days and I’m happy we have some now.
In the Netherlands, where snow is rare because it either rains or the cold polar air is too dry, it is also a thing. I think it occurred only once every 10 years, just often enough to make it extra special.
steph 12:24 on 2020-12-21 Permalink
It’s the Bing Crosby song “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas”. This holiday is to measure if you’ve been naughty or nice. The naughty people don’t get their wish of a white Christmas.
Mark Côté 14:45 on 2020-12-21 Permalink
I mean, it’s the biggest holiday of the winter for historically Christian societies, even though it happens early. We have this long, long stretch of winter with no real holidays ahead of us, so if we have no snow on the ground for Christmas, it feels like we don’t really have any winter holidays to speak of.
Kevin 15:25 on 2020-12-21 Permalink
One of my favourite Christmas memories is of my children and their friends playing on a new pogo stick out front on Boxing Day.
Only happened because it was a green Christmas.