lordnelson100:

squirrelwrangler:

There’s snow across the border in Tamaulipas. 

Yeah, New England, come fetch your weather. It got lost.

New England, here in Massachusetts we’re gonna get 6 six inches over tomorrow (Sat Dec 9): so our Winter is present and accounted for!

Anybody lose some snow? Maine? Newfoundland?

Where is Tamaulipas (looks at map). Geez, sorry, that’s fucked up! Is is snowing in ALL REALITIES?

I have some spare snow shovels you can borrow; only 3250 miles to come! Drive carefully, it’s winter 🙂 

I used to live in Newport, RI and Annapolis, MD and had cousins we’d visit for Christmas who lived in Oxbridge, MA (military brat, if you were wondering about the moves). So yeah, unlike my youngest sibling, I was used to snow growing up. And my parents were one of the only houses that had a snow shovel back 13 years ago when we got snow in South Texas for the first time in over a hundred years (and my dad relished shoveling that half-inch of snow off the driveway) But down here, yeah this is actual subtropics. Unless they are snowbirds down from Canada or moved in from somewhere else like my family, no one has seen snow before in their life. 

Yeah, Tamaulipas is the Mexican state directly across from where I live – it’s actually a shorter distance to the border than it is to Houston. And going strictly by latitude, where I live is basically the same, perhaps a little further south, as Orlando, Florida. In fact, it has snowed in Orlando more times than it has where I live.

My banana tree has snow on it.

Snow.

Actual snow.

More than a centimeter of snow.

Decent ground coverage of what you’d expect to find if you lived around or above Mason-Dixon Line in winter (as opposed to right below the 28th Parallel) snow.

Snow.

…This. Place. Is. Not. Supposed. To. Get. Snow.

Excuse me, but I live below the 28th Parallel in North America. I am not supposed to get freaking cold winters. There isn’t supposed to be a serious possibility of snow IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY!

The last time it snowed was 2004. Before that? Almost exactly a hundred years prior.