Last autumn, the common prognostication called for this to be a colder winter, with a lot more snow. If that’s the case, then we’re in for it soon. Because, up till now, this has been a classic Southeast Alaska winter, by my experience.
I’ve lived something over 30 years in Alaska, about half of those as a child. As a devotee of the classic White Christmas, I spent a good deal of time and energy fretting fruitlessly over the weather on Christmas Eve and Christmas. What we usually got was a period of very unsettling warmth right around the Winter Solstice, and a green Christmas with rain, or, if we were very lucky, perhaps a weak, wet, token snowfall. Then, on St. Stephen’s Day, the day after Christmas, we’d begin to get snow.
When the snow lay round about . . . (Photo: Mark Zeiger).