Fascinating thread.

The coldest it's gotten here this winter (I'm in northern Calif) has been a couple of nights around 30 degrees. The days have been oddly warm, for the most part...some 50's, but a lot more in the 60's- even high 60's.

I love the rain and adore real rainstorms...thunder, lightning. We're desperate for rain here and have been getting some this week, finally.

It doesn't snow where I am, but the mountains 90 minutes east of me are getting a great deal of badly-needed snow this week. I think snow is beautiful, but I don't like being in it; seems that it's always muddy and much, much too cold.