Just got back from Walgreens and the thermometer on the car reads 72 degrees. The cold front hasn't quite made it to the coast yet.

Driving rain, wind, and balmy temps - quite a difference from earlier in the week with snow and temps below freezing. No white Christmas this year

Well, gosh, Ohio, we here in Ontario thank you for all that snow - NOT!! We got lots of snow all night, and the freezing rain started this morning. The nice part, though, was that at about 3:00 this afternoon the sun came out. That wasn't even predicted. The trees were all coated with ice, and they sparkled like diamonds. It was beautiful - unless you factor in the power blackout that happened late this morning because the wind blew down a few of the ice-coated branches.
Never mind - I got my shopping done despite the odds. The cats are dozing in front of the fireplace and I'm goofing off for the evening.

Rain, wind and Rain near Albany NY and it suits me just fine. Rain is SO much easier to "shovel" than snow, and a lot less hectic to drive thru as we TRAVEL to family & friends.

I've no problem with rain on Christmas & looking out on the green lawn. Heck, GREEN is a Christmas season color too.

Rub it in Go Travel about your 70+ degree weather today. Since I can't get to the gym, I have shoveled my christmas cookie calories off.

Meestare-It's Lake Erie's fault. I read somewhere that the Great Lakes have their own little micro-weather system or something like that.

I've been happily perusing the web today dreaming of spring vaction in the tropics...

Southern Indiana is very white. Bah humbug to those who wished for a white Christmas - it's a real pain. We officially have about 2' of snow, but the wind has created drifts around my house 4' to 5'deep. Going to be below zero the next 2 mornings. We live in a rural area and have been snowed in all day. Thanks to our neighbors our road was finally opened this evening. Shoveling the drifts around our cars and from our front porch to the cars and to the barn where our horses are has been a huge job. On the plus side, the forecast says it will be around 40 by Monday.

Woke to rain this morning! A shock after so many sunny days. But it got sunny by afternoon and 76.
Wearing tee shirts again

Tomorrow it will cool back into the 50s but no snow forecast

Sorry buckeyemom. It was a miserable 72 and not a good one if it makes you feel any better. Everything was sweaty and sticky. Just a yucky humid night so we turned on the AC and of course it was only 50 something when we woke up freezing this morning.

No snow in Chicagoland. Bitterly cold and bright sun here. Our high today may be around 8 degrees. It's zero now. Sorry, Indiana- our lake effect dumped more than two feet of snow on you in the last two days- hope Santa is especially good to you- if your plans changed because of it.

Well, I'm still on flake patrol here in San Antonio. It's 32 degrees and 3 surrounding counties are under a snow advisory until 6P but so far where we are nada

A foot of snow in Victoria, TX this Christmas morning! And it snowed in places like Houston, and Brownsville (first snow since 1895!). Snow has also been reported in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Wacky, weird, wild weather.

Nothing white but it is raining in Jax Fl. We will have high surf if anyone wants to do some Christmas surfing

Since we're in central Ohio I'm with Buckeyemom - our electricity was out for 12+ hours on Thursday, but thank G*d it came on late that night (and I also agree with her on the supplies - we hit Kroger before their generator gave out and stocked up on essentials, beer, wine...). We have 25,000 people still in the dark after waking up to -5 this morning. What a way to spend Christmas! I'm having just a taste of what Floridians encountered this summer with their hardships and wonder what we did to p**s Him off?........

ccolor-SIL and friend lost their power. I don't think we did anything to P*** Him off, it's just Mother Nature's unpredictability. We have been lucky in the weather dept. for a couple of years, we dodged tornadoes and other major storms. I guess we are due for a bad one. I lost power a couple of summers ago when we had a bad storm roll through, it was tough in the summer with 90+ degrees and no air, lost everything in my refrigerator. We were off for 4 days. But, it does not compare to losing power in the Winter. We have a generator now and plenty of fire wood, so if anything should happen we are prepared.

We'll have to have a Fodorite mini get together in Columbus soon. Maybe Snowrooster and cd can join us and anyone else who lives nearby.

Merry Christmas!

The only thing white about my Christmas in Naples, Florida is my hair and the whipped cream on my eggnog.

We're getting light snow in Illinois. OK, so it's Christmas and a little snow is pretty. Would prefer it be gone when I wake up.

Another light sprinkling in Chicagoland overnight, Dec. 26 is whiter than the 25th. But it's really light, airy kind and just enough to make everything white without being hard to drive through. Christmas season is terrific this year, very traditional.

While DFW got a dusting last Wed. far South Texas had an enormous snow for Christmas.
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It was an incredibly white Christmas in Buffalo (as if that's a surprise). About a foot of it fell on Christmas Eve!

My sister called me internationally three times on Christmas Eve to update me on the snow at her house in Houston. A white Christmas in Houston! I couldn't believe it. First time in recorded history. It even accumulated on her car and in her yard.

I was also in awe to see the snow accumulation in the palm trees on Galveston island when watching The Weather Channel. Wonders never cease.