Like I said earlier in one of my posts...we are too warm to get snow like the towns to the north of us. If by chance the snow DOES hit the lower elevations, it snows for only a short while and generally melts when it hits the ground. If the snow does cling to the ground...it amounts to maybe a light dusting (sometimes a little more) and melts within a couple of hours.
Yesterday afternoon our rain turned to rain and snow mixed, then turned into straight snow late last night. The snowing only lasted maybe one and one half hours but remained on the ground. It was a medium dusting of snow and pretty much stayed till the morning to give the children a treat.
Our children get really deprived of the snow living down here. IF they are lucky...they might get their ONE LITTLE snowman made, if they hurry outside and work quickly. The children are pretty determined to get their snowmen made even if it looks like there is not enough snow to get the job done. They scrounge around the ground and keep rolling that little ball of snow picking up dead grass, sticks, leaves, and pebbles along with the snow. They giggle and laugh and have a great time!!
Snow being so rare down here, it is really a novelty. Those of us who have moved down here to escape the snow and freezing weather of winters elsewhere, can relax when it DOES snow here...for we know it won’t last long and melts quickly. When the temperature is around 50 degrees....snow doesn’t have a chance of staying. But it is soooo fun to watch the children’s delight as they scurry outside BEFORE all the snow melts, to build their snowmen.
The photos above were taken today of the school playground by my house. As I went for my daily walk around the track today...this is the scene I beheld. It was 12:30pm and 49 degrees outside. The children were out for their lunch recess and were all busy with their hands in the rolled mounds of snow. It looked so funny because the ground all around them was brown grass.. I only wish I had been out earlier for the morning recess. I was told that there was a playground FULL of snowmen. What you see in the above photos is the left-over fun from the morning recess.
Yesterday afternoon our rain turned to rain and snow mixed, then turned into straight snow late last night. The snowing only lasted maybe one and one half hours but remained on the ground. It was a medium dusting of snow and pretty much stayed till the morning to give the children a treat.
Our children get really deprived of the snow living down here. IF they are lucky...they might get their ONE LITTLE snowman made, if they hurry outside and work quickly. The children are pretty determined to get their snowmen made even if it looks like there is not enough snow to get the job done. They scrounge around the ground and keep rolling that little ball of snow picking up dead grass, sticks, leaves, and pebbles along with the snow. They giggle and laugh and have a great time!!
Snow being so rare down here, it is really a novelty. Those of us who have moved down here to escape the snow and freezing weather of winters elsewhere, can relax when it DOES snow here...for we know it won’t last long and melts quickly. When the temperature is around 50 degrees....snow doesn’t have a chance of staying. But it is soooo fun to watch the children’s delight as they scurry outside BEFORE all the snow melts, to build their snowmen.
The photos above were taken today of the school playground by my house. As I went for my daily walk around the track today...this is the scene I beheld. It was 12:30pm and 49 degrees outside. The children were out for their lunch recess and were all busy with their hands in the rolled mounds of snow. It looked so funny because the ground all around them was brown grass.. I only wish I had been out earlier for the morning recess. I was told that there was a playground FULL of snowmen. What you see in the above photos is the left-over fun from the morning recess.
