The one time of year that creates an exception to the above is Christmas. There's a reason why Bing Crosby dreamt of a White Christmas. So with Gaudete Sunday upon us, my thoughts turn to the place we left. Weather forecasts have been calling for a significant winter storm to hit the Northeast tomorrow. Perhaps the New England Patriots offense will be slowed to a mere mortal scoring pace (less than 40 points). And in Northern Virginia, home of the infamous "Rain/Snow" line...who knows.
Weather.com, that's who. The Weather Channel's website is now calling for rain in NoVa tonight and not much else. The New England area will still get hammered, so the Patriots battle with the New York Jets (SpyGate II) will be worth a look.
I then checked out the "White Christmas" predictions for both NoVa and our new hometown, Melbourne, FL. The site disclaimer notes that "until the week before Christmas, [the] map is based on historical climatology." OK, fair enough. I really just wanted to quantify what we had given up.
According to the map, the chances of a White Christmas is the same in Northern Virginia as in Melbourne! Now to be fair, they only have four categories of probability: 0-25, 25-50, 50-75, and 75-100%. Still that means we gave up less than 1 chance in 4 of seeing any kind of snowfall, or snow on the ground, on Christmas.
And in exchange for moving to a thoroughly Green Christmas town, we significantly increased the probability of seeing our families over the holidays.
I think we made the right call.
2 comments:
Except when Brian keeps asking me to see snow!
Don't worry. You can still hop a plane to visit the white stuff. I can't imagine packing the kids in the car day after day with full coats, hats, scarves and mittens. I sweat just thinking about it.
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