A Grey Christmas

By Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
Johannesburg, South Africa
December 25, 2016 5:52pm CST
Whenever I hear the song "White Christmas" being played on the radio I think how inappropriate it is given that Christmas falls in summer here. The only chance we have of getting a white Christmas is if we have a really severe hailstorm and I certainly don't want one of those. Today, however, we had a grey Christmas with soft rain falling for most of the day. I guess that's a gift in a country which has been stricken by drought for over a year now, but it did take some of the fun out of the day. How was the weather in your part of the world this Christmas?
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@JudyEv (323745)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Dec 16
Being in Australia, a white Christmas is never on the cards for us either.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
27 Dec 16
@JudyEv Do you get snow in winter? We rarely do where I live.
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@JudyEv (323745)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Dec 16
@Gina145 We never get snow in our area. There are a few ski resorts in the mountainous regions over East.
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@marlina (154183)
• Canada
27 Dec 16
We had a littl snow and then freezing rain and then heavy rain. Gloomy!
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
27 Dec 16
@marlina That doesn't sound like too much fun. I'm happy to say that snow is something I almost never have to contend with. I've only seen snow three times in my life.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
28 Dec 16
@marlina It does snow in Africa, more in some parts than others. My city very rarely gets snow, but it happens occasionally. It snowed just after I was born, so I didn't get to see it then. Next time was when I was about two, but we were visiting relations in another area at the time so we missed it. After that we didn't get snow again until I was 19.
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@marlina (154183)
• Canada
28 Dec 16
@Gina145 Did it actually snow in Africa? Or where you somewhere else in the world?
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@shivamani10 (11038)
• Hyderabad, India
26 Dec 16
Here the weather is quite chilly and we enjoyed a lot We had nice get-together
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
27 Dec 16
@shivamani10 I'm glad you had a good day.
@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Dec 16
Same here in the southern USA, it rarely snows! and IF it does its always in Feb. Today it was sunny with a high temp of 75 degrees, I hung laundry out on the clothes line to dry
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
26 Dec 16
@andriaperry That's pretty nice for a winter's day. It was colder than that here and tomorrow isn't likely to be much better.
@Ayuriny (5144)
• Denpasar, Indonesia
26 Dec 16
Yeah..that's really a gift for your country. The weather here is very good. It's a warm and bright sunny day. Merry Christmas to you!
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
26 Dec 16
Merry Christmas. I'm glad you had nice weather on Christmas day... and jealous, even if we need the rain.
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