I heard in the news and read in papers that you have had real winter snow storms in East Coast and in Canada - apparently in Nova Scotia too?? Well, enjoy and go skiing!
We do not have any snow here - only in northernmost parts of Scandinavia there is a little snow, but the temperature has been +7Celsius degrees (+45 F) in Lapland in recent days, which is tremendous extraordinary. Something is really going on...
But- the winter solstice(??right word?) point is crossed today, and now the daylight time is beginning to grow :)