When it snowed last year, each small, square cobble was like an ice cube.

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Then when it snowed he said, 'I want to go to the beach'.

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It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it pile up.

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It snowed early that year: a freak blizzard, a beautiful anomaly.

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We knew it would be freezing cold - it snowed in Homs while she was there - so I lent her a pair of ill-fitting, Y-fronted longjohns to keep her warm.

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The week before Christmas, it snowed again.

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It snowed that night.

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The next morning we looked out of the window and thought it had snowed but it was the sun shining on the floodwater.

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These days, it rarely snowed the way it had back in the years before her parents died.

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Snowmaking machines are working at full throttle, even on the highest peaks, because it hasn't snowed since December.

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Denmark's maritime climate and winters are warmer than those of its Scandinavian neighbors, and it hadn't snowed that early there in nearly 14 years.

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But the offer was released days earlier than planned and began appearing in other regions across the UK and up to 9, 000 people snapped it up, leaving the business snowed under.

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