Homely it is a fun livestream to watch, I watched it off and on during your storm and I did see that there were areas where it was all rain but the snow cams were really pretty to watch, especially kids skating while the snow was falling.

It looks like we may finally get snow, starting tonight and snowing right through to saturday. The weathermen are hedging their forecast with us getting somewhere between 2"-4" of snow or 5"-11" of snow. It's hard to be inaccurate with that big of a range ! unfortunately we're also getting wind and for the first time this winter, we'll have windchills in the -20s....brrrrrrrrr

Ooooooo, N Q, that's a truly lovely livestream! I had to turn it off or else risk losing my entire work day to just staring at it. We did not end up with snow last weekend. The storm started as sleet and freezing rain, but quickly turned to an absolutely drenching rain. Today it is raining again and we await the onslaught of the very high winds. With the ground so soaked, I anticipate lots of downed trees and power outages. Not worried for us, as we have a generator. However, DS in Vermont is getting all of this as snow and wind, and he lives in a small apartment that is all electric. Once they lose power, they are out of luck. Fingers crossed that people stay safe in this storm system!

Ooooooo, N Q, that's a truly lovely livestream! I had to turn it off or else risk losing my entire work day to just staring at it. We did not end up with snow last weekend. The storm started as sleet and freezing rain, but quickly turned to an absolutely drenching rain. Today it is raining again and we await the onslaught of the very high winds. With the ground so soaked, I anticipate lots of downed trees and power outages. Not worried for us, as we have a generator. However, DS in Vermont is getting all of this as snow and wind, and he lives in a small apartment that is all electric. Once they lose power, they are out of luck. Fingers crossed that people stay safe in this storm system!

I came across this Live streaming video of webcams from all over the New England and by the looks of them, everybody out in your direction Homely is getting lots of snow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl74W1nkMFU

Homely it's looking like you may get some real snow this weekend, it's only going to be a dusting of snow in Wis. Dec 30th we got sleet, bad enough that they shut down highways, we were lucky it didn't happen New Years eve !

I did have a very warm christmas, it was in the low 50's and raining and the day was nice but low key because there were only 8 of us instead of the big family gathering we normally have but it was still a nice day. Hope you had a nice one too !

Hi, N Q - Thanks for posting the photo of the trees. And today, a week or so later, they are still looking just like that. Spectacularly beautiful! No snow on Xmas, but a dusting this past Sunday. No, wait, it was Monday - days are all confused because of the holiday! And now we may have a winter storm of some sort this weekend. Hoping for snow instead of ice. I hope your holiday was warm and wonderful... I'm still enjoying my decorations for now!

The snow on the trees is so pretty right now.
http://i.postimg.cc/XNFbmdZH/Image1.jpg

So Homely did you get your snow ?
That's nice that you've got your shopping done and are ready for christmas and like you, I always enjoyed holidays falling on monday or fridays so that I had that extra long weekend and having it fall on monday means having time to bake but I preferred holidays falling on friday so I don't have to get up the next day for work and now I do very little baking so I don't need much food prep time.

I'ld like to wish everybody on Opentopia a very Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas to you, as well, N Q - love the tobaggan story, too! Thought of you on my way in to work this morning because, lo and behold, we have had a cold snap and they are treating all the highways for winter weather. Time will tell. I think I have particularly enjoyed the season this year because having Christmas Day fall on a Monday means I have a whole weekend to get ready. It has really relieved the pressure, and I'm actually ready a little earlier than normal this year, too. Probably that's because our daughter keeps prompting me to do things like make lists and take advantage of online shopping! Have a wonderful time and I'm sure we will catch up after the holidays, if not sooner.

Homely at this point it really doesn't look like snow for me, they're actually forcasting rain on both christmas eve and christmas day and with the lows in the high 30's, I'm pretty sure that won't change over to snow. I was just telling a friend that in 1968 when I was a kid, we got a tobaggon for christmas, it rained christmas eve and christmas day and we only ended up with a few inches of snow that whole winter. I was extremely disappointed back then, now I'm sorta happy that I won't be driving on bad roads on christmas day !

I'm glad I'm not the only one in the Thanlsgiving club and I gotta say that I'm not tired of my decorations as of yet so I may wait till some time later in Jan to take them down, normally that's a New Years day thing to do for me.

I hope you have a Merry Christmas, I'm saying this now in case neither of us make it back here till after christmas. 

I'm not giving up on the snow yet, N Q! And I'm in the "Thanksgiving Decorating" club, too! We had an inch and a half of slushy stuff a week ago, quickly melted. It's an up and down time of year for the weather, but it ain't over 'til it's over!

It's starting to look like the only snow I'll be seeing is on these cams. We have a very light dusting of snow but our temps are going up into the 40's with rain by this weekend and no snow in the forcast before christmas :(

Homely do you have snow and do you have all of your christmas decorations up yet ? I put my decorations up on Thanksgiving weekend, it's the only holiday that I decorate for so I make the most of it by having them up for over a month :)

Oh! You're right about that - I love the lights!

They put twinkling lights up the flagpole, it looks pretty with the lights and snow in the background.

Lovely shot, N Q! 

The view here tonight is really pretty with the snow on the roofs and all of the lights and most of the buildings having a gold tone to them.
http://i.postimg.cc/gJdrtJH1/Viltbutiken.jpg

Short summers, long winters.. you should see how fast the buds and leaves come out in the spring in Sweden, sort of an explosion!!  Amazed me the first time I saw it.

I am amazed how quickly the leaves disappear and the snow settles in here.

Hi Phoenix. Yes got some rain a couple days ago. Just enough to wet things down and raise the September monthly total from 0.45 to 0.77 of an inch. Not much but grateful for what had fallen recently. We are now in a "minor " drought now.

Hi Deacon, has it rained on you yet??