There have been some cancellations here, but not due to snow, but the cold (wind chills around -40F/C are mighty cold for those kids waiting for the school bus!). We were below 0F (-18C) from Sunday until today, even during the daytime.

But a dramatic shift is coming, with highs by Sunday possibly reaching 40F/4C - toasty!

Meanwhile we've got 29 degrees C, and I'm lurking indoors after getting home from driving in heat 🥵.  This week we've also had 3 lots of rain, a thunderstorm that gave a huge downpour (so fast it puddled everywhere,  briefly flooding our street) , very gusty winds, and some nice sun. Summer has 10 more days to go. 

Meanwhile in the entire eastern half of the USA and Canada, it's cold. I'm sure my northern friends are colder than I am, and my southern friends are a bit warmer, but.....its cold. We're still currently sitting at 2F and tonight's low is forecasted to be -8F.

However, next week is supposed to be a far more pleasant 50Fs to 60F most days and I can tell you all now my family is going to be outside! Cabin Fever is real!  

@fantasia the problem down here near the coast is it's the bone chilling, cutting through every layer, New Yorkers and Canadians call it cold, DAMP cold. 

Saturday and Sunday are going to be repeats. We're not supposed to top 45 until Sunday and today, Saturday, and Sunday are damp. I have to be at a horse show Friday - Sunday so I get to spend 12-15 hours freezing and another 3-5 hours trying to warm up and sleep enough to repeat the next day. This is the kind of cold we hate down here. It's miserable. Snow days like a couple of weeks ago aren't anywhere near as cold. 

I'm glad you have had a decent snowfall, @aileth. It must look really pretty. Do you have a long driveway to shovel?

I am thrilled to say that after nearly two months of many snowfalls (almost every day, to a greater or lesser extent), our deep layer still looks very pristine all around, because it has stayed nice 'n cold here all this time. And the town parking lot snowbanks, whoa, many are double a 6' man's height, if not more. On our rural street, many of the banks are above our mailboxes. The vast rural landscape views are almost blinding if the sun is trying to peep through, as everything is white, white, white. So gorgeous! 

But some corners are treacherous, as the banks are so high one cannot see around them clearly. Thankfully, those drivers I have seen are all being careful, whew.

Unfortunately, starting on Monday our temperatures begin rising to just above freezing. We could get snow, which would be wet-ish, or even rain showers. Here's hoping for the former!

I have started a petition to Keep the Snow Coming! (j/k)

EDIT: I should add that our middle son, his wife, and 2 & 1/2 year old daughter have been skiing in the French Alps this past week. The temperature there in those glorious mountains has been at least 10-15° Celsius warmer than here, which means that they were hovering around freezing all week, while we were in the midst of much colder and snowier weather. (They had a huge base of snow for skiing though, and had great conditions! )

I've heard a meteorologist say that we will have another month of summer weather here. That will be nice in lots of ways, not least for the late-growing fruit and vege gardens. 

Posted by: @jo

I'm glad you have had a decent snowfall, @aileth. It must look really pretty. Do you have a long driveway to shovel?

No, not at all; not like your driveway!  And no sidewalk on our side of the street. Once the surface was cleared off, it dried up almost instantly.  Therefore the roads are mainly bare, and the fields are snowy.  Just the way I like it.

Now out at my brother's farm, it's sometimes a different matter.  They rarely shovel, and occasionally sections of it get drifted in.  That is always interesting!  But this was a wet snow, so no blowing (perfect snowman/snowball material) and it's about 5C; it won't last long.

Posted by: @coracle

I've heard a meteorologist say that we will have another month of summer weather here. That will be nice in lots of ways, not least for the late-growing fruit and vege gardens. 

Assuming that's the same here - which I think it would be, that would be lovely!  Although some decent rain would be welcome as well!  With that said, it does appear that the weather is changing here now - the over-night temperatures appear to be getting cooler (apart from the last two nights - over 20 degrees).

Meanwhile, I'm back in England and it's raining.  

Posted by: @courtenay

Meanwhile, I'm back in England and it's raining.  

Same over in Wales! Although yesterday was beautifully warm and sunny day and felt a lot like spring 

@moonlit_centaur Oh wow, so you're another UK-based NarniaWebber!   I live in Cheshire, only about an hour's drive from North Wales, so I love going over there when I have time. Where abouts are you, if you don't mind me asking?

I've just recently got back from a few weeks in Australia, where I grew up, so there's quite a contrast with the weather. My parents, who live about 90 miles south-east of Melbourne, had a really hot day the other day where it was over 30 C well into the evening — I just missed that, as I flew out the day before. Well, "missed it" in the sense that I didn't experience it. I don't miss that kind of weather, in the other sense, at all!!    

@courtenay Yes! I'm originally from Southern England but went to university in Cardiff. Last year I spent 9 months on a mission programme in Ireland, then returned to Cardiff in September and seem to be settled here for the time being. 

Australia is very different to the UK! What brought you here of all places? 

It must be nice to be out of that heat, Courtenay!

Do you get much snow in your part of Wales, @moonlit_centaur?

Here, we are bracing for another couple of snow systems moving in—one overnight into tomorrow; the next (and more significant) through Friday night into Saturday. Because the temperature will be right around freezing, the snow will be wet and may even have some rain mingled with it. But here we are all hoping it will be full-on snow! Then the temperature turns much colder on Saturday for a couple of days.

The past couple of days have been just above freezing, with a bit of rain, so all our current snow is starting to melt. But there is a long ways to go yet! However, last night the temperature dropped quite quickly, so everything that was wet, froze overnight. Sliiipperrrry! Today, any ice melted, and the roads and pathways were much safer by later this morning.

@moonlit_centaur I can explain why we in the South Pacific choose to live in England or at least visit for long periods. Some of us have family there, who we love to spend time with, many of us have a real interest in the history and culture of the UK, or are English or other UK origin, and we are looking at our roots, the place our family came from, and the background of many books or TV series that we have enjoyed.

We don't necessarily go for the weather though! I have lived in London and Manchester, and visited other places for the sheer pleasure of the countryside and history, have enjoyed or endured long autumns, dreary winters and drizzly summers. In a recent 9 week visit, there was snow twice, the first lot only lasting a day in mid-November; that kind of snow is a novelty, whereas the kind that stayed for days and delayed travel.

@coracle: @moonlit_centaurI can explain why we in the South Pacific choose to live in England or at least visit for long periods. Some of us have family there, who we love to spend time with, many of us have a real interest in the history and culture of the UK, or are English or other UK origin, and we are looking at our roots, the place our family came from, and the background of many books or TV series that we have enjoyed.

It also largely depends on what sort of work one can get as well. My husband went back to Scotland, for about 18 months, where he was born, even though at the time, much of his family had migrated here in 1952, though several siblings have returned to visit UK at multiple times over the years ever since. But in 1964, he was able to get work in UK to keep him going, whilst still holding a UK passport.

Whereas, by the time I was able to travel with him to take a look at UK, it was a whole different kettle of fish. Hubby could stay an extra two weeks, but due to my own Australian work commitments at the time, all we could manage to see together, had to be fitted in about 3 weeks of annual leave, before I had to return to Australia, in what was a distinctly wet and stormy UK summer, in 1997. I have never forgotten that in Australia, in what was then an El Niño year, I left my best jacket at home, and that I bitterly regretted that oversight, when my husband said it would be summertime in Scotland, ha! ha! He said, "no you don't need a jacket", but yes, I most certainly did. 😨 

Though in Australia, even the children of 1952 UK migrants might be entitled to the privileges of dual citizenship, that doesn't necessarily apply to the descendants of sometimes involuntary "migrants" & their guards who came to Australia well before its Federation in 1901, but were nevertheless, still "British" by descent. Since my own birth in 1948, citizenship requirements have become stricter in both countries, especially after the 1980's. I have been to UK a couple of times, in 2009, and 2012, but I can't say that I have seen as much as I'd have liked to have done, during those limited times, afforded to me, thanks to the long service leave I used up before my 2013 retirement.