You remember when you were little and you would keep checking the sky for snow clouds on the offchance that you got a snow day?
And, if you don't fancy carrying it around, you could always wear it as a scarf that tells you if it might snow or a belt that gives you the news headlines instead.
If you find such a hole in a bank of snow you can be fairly certain - it is either a mouse or a meteorite.
Or if you wait long enough, some kind neighbor with a snow blower might just come along and help you out.
How do you gauge skiing conditions from a snow report?
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"You see the guys just turn around and have a quick pee in the snow and you go, 'Arrghh, I have to get undressed in this cold!'"
Dr. TRENBERTH: That's one of the - that's one of the ironical things that people don't understand, I find, about global warming, is that ironically you can get more snow as a consequence, in part, of global warming.
What you'll find is the peaceful quiet of freshly fallen snow, a cosy and historic home in which to keep warm, and snow sports aplenty to keep you entertained.
In Southern California, you can view snow-capped mountains from a warm sandy beach.
If you need a vehicle for extensive driving in deep snow, Cox recommends one of the more car-like SUVs, called crossovers.
And with all that money saved by the superefficient gas furnace in your basement, you fly to Aspen for a weekend in the snow.
If the snow is the right kind (hard and old but not too old), you can dig out a cave or a trench, or even carve out blocks of snow with a ski-pole, machete or a stick.
On the way home from skiing, you always get delayed by snow, but there is a Mexican place called Cantina Grill that I enjoy.
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Temperatures hover around 10 degrees centigrade during winter days, although if you are lucky, experiencing the Coliseum with a dusting of snow is magical.
But he added that when there is a rapid fall of snow "there is no way you can make it simply go away".
And as you mentioned, it's - there's been a dearth of snow in Europe and relatively mild conditions.
In order to get people to farm, thus providing local food (you know, local is good, right?), in a place which is snow and ice for half the year it is necessary to put up huge trade barriers to food coming in from places with more grass and more cows.
As if we actually had to tell you -- Disney is breaking a classic out of its "vault" this week with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
"Snow's getting ready to fly here, so you can't move a convertible, " he says.
Who wants to go out in the snow to get the exact screwdriver or drill bit, when you can usually find a semi-passable workaround?
You make it such that only the most dedicated supporters will show up, drudging through a foot of snow and subzero temperatures to deal with the caucuses.
Make sure there are snow tires available for your vehicle before you buy it, says Cox, since there are a few high-performance sport sedans and sports cars for which no winter tires are made.
Or you can try the Snowy Mountain Winter Village that offers two hours of dog sledding and a bunch of activities like snow shoeing and tobogganing.
Almost everyone leaps at the chance to go ashore at our first stop, King George Island, to climb a windswept 1, 000-foot incline whose hard crust of snow cracks on contact, sinking you to your knees every other step.
Take a metre of powder snow, then melt and freeze, melt and freeze, and after eight to 10 years you have a centimetre of ice.
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