Snow in Shanghai

I know it doesn't look like much, but this little dusting of snow we woke up to this morning caused quite a bit of excitement. It had snowed pretty big, wet flakes yesterday on and off, melting immediately when it hit the ground but tying up traffic all over the city. Shanghai just isn't used to big snowflakes. Occassionally tiny bits of snow might be spotted, but big, easily visible flakes are a rarity. So the fact that there was visible snow on surfaces today was big news. It was even mentioned from the pulpit at our service this afternoon. A friend at church told Scott that in his four years in Shanghai this was only the second time he had seen snow on the ground. In children's church, the director asked if this was the first time any of the children there had seen snow, and several raised their hands.

Obviously those kids are not from the Midwest. This little dusting of snow is what we would call springtime where I grew up!