Cursed SiliconGrowing up in Australia and absorbing American culture meant learning about (but never experiencing) "snow days" or really snow in general
But since moving to Seattle I gotta say I am positively *underwhelmed*
Also this is the first time it has "snowed"
At all
And it's meant to be spring now?
hobbs@CursedSilicon i might be a bit off but i don't think seattle is known for its snowfall. it's generally more of a rainy thing.
here in northwest trailerparkansas we got just over a foot of snow a few weeks ago
Krutonium://@CursedSilicon As a Canadian; That's... Barely a sprinkle. Enough to get snow days in southern states, but northern ones would just laugh at that.
I should have taken pictures, but my front lawn was taller than I was about 2 weeks ago, now it's mostly melted.
✨pencilears✨@CursedSilicon this is a Seattle thing, sometimes we get snow in March because the seasons are generally shifted a bit when you live next to the ocean. (the water takes longer to cool and longer to warm back up in summer)
Also, global warming has led to this being the warmest winter on record. So like, yeah, it's not much. We used to get more.
@pencilears The lack of rain over winter was also especially concerning tbh
@CursedSilicon ayup!! This summer is looking crispy
Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻@pencilears @CursedSilicon March snow is not just a Seattle thing. My dad's from Colorado and I remember as a kid one year skiing on the fourth of July.
Of course it was all snow machine snow with a lot of bare spots, but they got to say they stayed open. The last natural snow was probably around the beginning of June.
Harleck@CursedSilicon
Yeah, today is gross around here.
Yeah, today is gross around here.
King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi@CursedSilicon Move to the Midwest--literally anywhere in the Great Lakes region--and you'll be singing a different tune come next winter. :)
@dragonarchitect I wanna see it at least ONCE tho
@CursedSilicon You're basically in one of the least snow-prone regions of the continent overupthere in Seattle. Even though you're at high latitude, several factors come together to stabilize the climate up there.
@CursedSilicon The Great Lakes region is almost the opposite. It's deep enough into the continent for the continental effect to give it bitterly cold winters, north of the gulf so sometimes huge masses of water can wash up from the south, and the great lakes provide a lovely boost to the whole cocktail specifically over western new york, pennsy, ontario, and northern ohio with Lake Effect Snow.
@dragonarchitect As @xsnulz once said
"As soon as I can dig myself out of my house I'm kicking your ass"
(She lives in NY state)
Jima 
@dragonarchitect @CursedSilicon Can confirm; we're being threatened with the prospect of 10-20 inches of snow this weekend, about a week before "spring."
@CursedSilicon also people willingly moving here to the US blows my mind.
@hobbs 2022 was a better time >:
Jeff@CursedSilicon I grew up in Olympia in the 80s and 90s, when things were noticeably colder and wetter. The snow days in the pacific northwet were rare and, at best, whelming even then.
OTOH, if you try to go over one of the passes today, you won't see snow because there's too much of it and they closed the roads. (A buddy tried to go skiing today and couldn't.)
James Mitchell@CursedSilicon Seattle just isn't where you come to get your snow days. It happens, but it's a special treat to get more than this. Chicago? Somewhat different
@CursedSilicon that said? Seattle does occasionally get a proper snow storm and everything shuts down. Every eight, ten or so years. We're fetting toward being due
GothPanda@CursedSilicon To be fair, that is a pretty underwhelming amount of snow.
You only really got a snow day if there was enough snow to make travel bad. So, we'd usually need to get at least a couple of inches.