Could have fooled me
Perception is a strange thing. I’ve here, in Rossland, for almost 8 years now and gone through seven full winters. If you had asked me earlier today what our snowfall was like this year compared to those last seven I would have said that we were behind schedule. Then I opened our local piece of yellow journalism The Rossland Record today to read that Glen Saby, a lower Rossland resident who keeps track of our weather for us, stating:
We had more snow in the first ten days of December than we had all of December last year,” says Glen. “I know, I was shovelling it.” He’s been measuring the snow that falls in his lower Rossland backyard since 1987, and shovelling it most winters since 1946. Only three times in the last 16 years has Rossland received more snow than this December’s 65.25 inches (165.7 cm), Glen says. His 16-year average for December is 47.2 inches (120 cm).
Could have fooled me until today. In the last 24 hours we’ve probably received 2 feet of snow and there is a veritable blizzard going on out there right now. Snowshoeing should be good tomorrow 
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Comment from Doug Alder
Time: 1/8/2005, 2:52 pm
Yup that’s the Postal Code and yes that’s BC. If you go from Vancouver BC to Calgary Alberta along the southern Hwy 3 route Rossland is located exactly halfway between them. We are about 10 miles north of the border NNW of Spokane WA, which is about 120 miles from here. Or you could just put Latitude 49.07970 and Longitude -117.80204 into your mapping program and be right at the house here 
Comment from Kate S.
Time: 1/8/2005, 12:51 pm
Where are you? In Canada? It didn’t say on the link, just Rossland, BC, with a bunch of letters & numbers (zipcode?) so that means British Columbia, eh?
We just lived through a mini-blizzard that lasted for several days, non-stop, winds gusting up to 35 mph, dumping snow at a terrific rate that required us out there trying to find a place to put it all, several times a day, so we could get the back door open and drive through it.
This is a very rare event here in the Interior of Alaska where the climate is described as a desert — it’s very dry here with no humidity in winter and sub-arctic temps most of the time. This year it has been so warm we actually had rain during the blizzard. Instead of -40 below, it was in the high 30s and 40s — above zero. Crazy.
I blame it on the sun. He’s been a might pesky lately.