An unprecedented non-white Christmas is likely over the most populated part of Canada.
(current snow cover via wunderground.com, Dec 23, 2011)
Nonwhite Christmas
Michael Tobis
Michael Tobis, editor-in-chief of Planet3.0 and site cofounder, has always been interested in the interface between science and public policy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences where he developed a 3-D ocean model on a custom computing platform. He has been involved in sustainability conversations on the internet since 1992, has been a web software developer since 2000, and has been posting sustainability articles on the web since 2007.
It's not white here, but that's not at all unprecedented. We haven't had a good snow at all yet this season. That's probably less common. It's been mild. I expect it will come with a vengeance when it does.