As the holiday season starts to reach its finish line, I feel lucky that I was able to spend it with friends and family, with good food. However, I, like many others I'm sure, want to know why making snow angels right now would cause a stir; why attempting to make a snowman would be very unfulfilling; want to know in short, where's the darn snow?

This brings two things to mind.

1. I'm sure that the number of deaths and car-accident related injuries was way down this holiday season, as people racing to parties weren't sliding about on ice and snow. Hooray.

However,

2. Why is it that upon daily inspection, as well as random hour-long searches when I get particularly fed up, can I not find any recent newspaper articles with even a mention of the environmental concern this snowless holiday entails? On the CBC site, two articles from December and January were found. One was about ice-wine makers, and the problems the warm weather is giving them. The other was a general article about how not to dream of a white Christmas, as the song goes.

That's it.

We had a hailstorm this July. And now we haven't had more than a flurry all season. I don't expect newspapers to be giving this front-page priority, but it's something I'd like to know more about. The environmental concerns are, if nothing else, an interesting look at climate change and global warming! Is this really so normal that no one wants to hear the scientific side of it?