Snow?

Rain, rain go away
Come back as snow some other day.

Well, the countdown to Christmas is less than a week away and with the magical day drawing closer and closer we are still left without a white backdrop to celebrate with. Here the last weeks it has been quite warm - we got up into the mid 40's a couple days and it has consistently stayed above freezing. There has been a day or to where we have gotten some flurries but for the most part we have gotten a lot of rain. I feel like last year we had pretty much the same weather pattern, with lots and lots of moisture in December, the only difference between then and now is that the temperature was cold enough last year where everything that came down was snow. Granted it didn't stay for that long on the ground but there were many days where everything was white.
On Saturday we went to the city where Katy played basketball last year, about 25 minutes away, to watch a game. After the game was over and we went outside it was really snowing, and the big flakes too. The ones where if you stick your tongue out to catch one it feels like it takes up your whole mouth. (Myla even tried to catch one but her mouth wasn't big enough and instead of getting to taste her first snowflake it pretty much gave her a face-wash). But, even though the town isn't that far away, when we got back to Wels any hint of a snowflake was gone and everything coming down had completley turned back into rain. Not sure if it is maybe just warmer in the area where we are but as we drove to our basketball game yesterday you could see snow on many of the hillsides and fields, so not all of Austria is snow-free.
With a little luck and our fingers crossed we are hoping we will get a white Christmas this year (and maybe be able to show Myla how to build a snowman - as it is a little hard to make one out of water).