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Posted: Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 11:56 am. Filed in New Features.
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43 Degrees, but it’s snowing

by Matt

It’s 43 degrees outside, which is I think as cold as it gets in San Francisco. But there’s no reason we can’t turn down the thermometer here on WordPress.com.

That’s right, the snow is back!

Last year we were a little tardy with adding it so to make up we’re giving you almost a full month of snowy goodness.

How to make it rain snow?

  1. Go to your dashboard.
  2. Navigate to Appearance -> Extras.
  3. Check the box next to “Show falling snow on this blog.”
  4. Roast some chestnuts.

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
but this blog is sooo delightful
Until the internet gets slow,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Those of you who turned on snow on last year will get it automatically. If you want to turn it off just do the steps above but uncheck the box.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

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  1. deirdrea
    December 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Yay!

    And we’re supposed to get real snow here tonight!
    Happy Holidays, everyone!

  2. alcocheckpoint
    December 6th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    This is a really cool feature to add to our Blogs! Thanks WP.

  3. egza
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    really cool and cold!

  4. Sean Yeomans
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    how the heck does this work?

  5. JellyBeen
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Thanks for the reminder, Matt.

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  7. gclaytonlewis
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Thank you for the snow! I love it, and my kids think it’s great. :)

  8. AudaciousAria
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    That’s totally cool :D

    Merry Christmas y’all

  9. Michel
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    sweet thanks wp!
    ill put it on my blog right now!

  10. C
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    It should last until march though!! Love it.

  11. Mercedes
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    How utterly charming!

  12. masssu
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    Whoo that’s is so cool

  13. Kanti Kumar
    December 6th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    My daughter and I love to have this on our blogs. Both of us are crazy about snow, real or virtual! Thanks!!

  14. Anna Surface
    December 6th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    LOL I love it! Thanks! But gee, only until January 4, 2009? Where I live, Kansas, the snow is just beginning in earnest! I’d love to see the snow special feature last until at least January 28, 2009. I love the snow on my blog. Say, in the spring…. thunderstorms??? :)

  15. benigngirl
    December 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    I LOVE the snow! My blog loves it too, I can just tell. Idea! Can we have options for rain and sunshine and clouds and falling leaves year round? (You had to know that would happen)

    Thanks ever so much!

    Your pal,
    Mo

  16. Anna Surface
    December 6th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    Oops! Me, again. I meant, I’d love for the snow feature to last until February 28, 2009. :)

  17. Linda
    December 6th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    Love the snow! Thanks :)

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  19. aussie229
    December 6th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Dude, that happens in Colorado a lot! It happens every winter like 10 times!!

  20. alhakim
    December 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    Wow the snow comes again :)

  21. michel12345
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    awsome

  22. xpresat
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    haha thanks.. this is so cold XD
    I love it :)

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  24. Krystal Bell
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    I like that line about kids from 1 to 92,that’s a good massage and a hood.I fall in there somewhere and fit right in too,which is quite unusual for this lil kit.Thaks for sharing this with the snow affect.

  25. steadyjohn
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Sorry, but snowess means slowness; this feature slowed things waaaaaay down on my site. I discontinued it and my site perked right up.

  26. clubpenguincheatpeople
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    OMG I love it! I put a snow cloud for my header so it looks like the snow is coming out of the cloud! Cool stuff!

  27. Jeice Force
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Sweet! This is sooooo cool, i was thinking that in the blogs that had it, was just a css. But, then i saw some more blogs and then, well, i wondered. :grin:

  28. sinac
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    hi matt, a good year wish you.
    I hope to not forget Norowz,
    you have christmas and I (Iranian and some country) have Norowz :)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz

  29. Brad
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    Coolness! Even more proof that WordPress is the world’s best blogging platform!

  30. dailydigitalbabes
    December 6th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    ha! that’s really cool. i’m in SF missing the snow as well.

  31. clubpenguincheatpeople
    December 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    It’s snowing for real in Philly. Hurricane predicted it, and its’ happening! (Glenn “Hurricane” Shwartz is the weatherman for NBC 10 in Philly.)

  32. Schnitzy
    December 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    He he… Cool… I’m from Romania and surprisingly, this year we won’t have snow… Well.. at least I have here XD
    Thank you!

  33. Ryo-Base
    December 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    Sweet! that’s awesome

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  35. furoshiki
    December 6th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    Oh! this is one of my favourite December pleasures… and my customized header is so perfectly tuned. Have a look, passing-by friends! Thanks WP

  36. gracie girl
    December 6th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    I love the snow!!! Just wondering why it only lasts until January 4th. Christmas goes for 12 days, so it would be nice for the snow to last until the 6th.

  37. mamaneeds2rant
    December 6th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    I like it. Much better here than on the roads.

  38. orngyee
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:02 am

    Ya snow is cool.

  39. lajuneband
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    Lol that’s great!

  40. Rob
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    Same thing happened to my blog this year as last when the snow began to fly. My gravatar and other blog features went wacky. Maybe a coincidence…I think not.

  41. Bridget Casas
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:20 am

    The snow is great! I love it – we don’t get much here in Huntington Beach!

  42. itsallabouthallie
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    Thank you!!

  43. Betty Jung
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!! LOVE IT – thanks.

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  45. nissanese
    December 7th, 2008 at 1:15 am

    lovely, thanks bunch.

  46. Nanna
    December 7th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    I’m dreaming of a white christmas *sigh*

    It’s hot and humid here is Queensland Aus and this is the closest I’ll get to my white christmas LOL Thanks heaps and lots of ho ho ho happy times to you all *grin*

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  48. thedailyclick
    December 7th, 2008 at 1:37 am

    THANK YOU for bringing the snow back!! :-)

  49. braybon9
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:24 am

    AWESOME WORDPRESS!!!! This place just gets better and better.
    Braybon9~

  50. Jinky Bagagñan
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:31 am

    Great! Love the snow and WordPress. :)

  51. Shannon
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:33 am

    Thank you so much! LOVE the snow!

  52. Marci
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    This is so cool, especially since I just put up a snowman on my blog. Thank you for creating this. We are still waiting for some snow in the Pacific Northwest – expect some in the next week or so.
    Merry Christmas!! Marci

  53. Fasarax
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:27 am

    In Santiago, Chile, there’s not a snow! T.T

  54. spaz125
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:49 am

    Clever song edit.

    Quote of the year (all credit going to my friend Rosie M.)
    “Life is short, eat a cookie”

  55. When Giants Meet
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:49 am

    This is the good snow…the one I don’t have to shovel!!!

  56. mareacidalium
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:20 am

    San Francisco, our lovely City of Contradictions, may *never snow, but it at least always makes us think it will at any minute. In the words of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” Today’s snow is no mere snow, but the realization of a promise SF weather has been making for a long time. Don’t just apply snow to your page; apply San Francisco Snow.

  57. birddog202
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:24 am

    Sweet this is a awesome thing to add to a blog

  58. Ashesh
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:25 am

    Hey that’s hyper cool. I do not regret switching from blogging into Drupal to WordPress. WordPress rocks! keep up the good job, wordpress team! Best of luck :D

  59. arwansp
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:35 am

    wow great, i ll try it…

  60. sjackman
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    Awesome!!! Thanks!

  61. A. Woz
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    ditto all, whahoo.

  62. brayanhabid
    December 7th, 2008 at 4:59 am

    It’s the only way to see some snow in my city, because it only rains cats, dogs and cows.

  63. barrycyrus
    December 7th, 2008 at 5:04 am

    i cant help but to guys! amazing!

  64. tendrils
    December 7th, 2008 at 5:05 am

    Thank you!

  65. allforblue
    December 7th, 2008 at 5:58 am

    thank you, cool snow season :)

  66. ponytale
    December 7th, 2008 at 6:30 am

    Love this feature! But… it crashes firefox 3 on my computer (T_T) I guess I have to switch it off.

  67. aceprock
    December 7th, 2008 at 6:47 am

    Thank you wonderful computer programmers. It’s 27 degrees here and I am still waiting for snow, so this is great to fill in.

  68. joshidaniel
    December 7th, 2008 at 6:47 am

    that’s just great :)

  69. jurepurgaj
    December 7th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    I just love this one… And i wanna have snow longer till the 4… We have snow till Mai… so come one… stop the climate problems at wordpress :)

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  71. janien
    December 7th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Wow! Snow is back! Thank you, WP, and merry Christmas and happy 2009!

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  73. Mr. Anonymous®
    December 7th, 2008 at 8:25 am

    This is the ONLY SNOW we are going to see here in the Bahamas ! :-)
    Thanks again for your excellent efforts!

  74. Debbie Ball
    December 7th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    Let it snow… let it snow… let it snow ♥

  75. dejardefumarya
    December 7th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Fantastic! Seguid así chicos!!

  76. Claire
    December 7th, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Not that it is super needed here in Sweden to have a blog with falling snow…
    we have quite enough outside; however, it makes it more “Christmas-ish” and I love it.
    So thank you, very cool feature! ^_^

  77. crystalloids
    December 7th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    You had me fooled for a moment, I kept thinking how can it be snowing @ 43degrees?

  78. the rufus
    December 7th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    My kids like it – thanks a lot. How about enhancing the period – only in case we do not get real snow here again …

  79. mesis
    December 7th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    THANKS! It´s wonderful – and here in Finland we have snow now :)

  80. nettimuori
    December 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am

    Wonderful! Thank you for the Christmas feel!

  81. trangd
    December 7th, 2008 at 10:17 am

    Thank you and happy holiday

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  83. newnatol
    December 7th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    this is such a great idea! thank you :)

  84. cpjonybb
    December 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    yay its snowing on my blog :D

  85. shellfisher
    December 7th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    This has got to be the most awesome thing I’ve ever done. Snow by the click of a mouse!

  86. realfantasy23
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    Thanks alot, it’s great :)

  87. schweizerkrieger
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Ich finde das WordPress der beste Blog ist im Web.

    to all nice christmas

  88. cocorote
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    man great….. so nice, keep going..macAlbert.

  89. max510
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Fantastic ! Thank you and Buon Natale…

  90. lippol
    December 7th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    Very Cool!! It’s Fantastic!! :-)

  91. businessleadershiptraining
    December 7th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    I am going to let it snow! just shortly…

  92. sexywhispers
    December 7th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    Love the snow. Love it even more b/c a friend with a Blogger blog stopped by to tell me how jealous he was of my snow! SWEET!

  93. letters2soulmate
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    It’s snowing in Boston at the moment.
    Although I am not a big fan of winter I am an enormous fan of WordPress! Thanks so much for everything!
    Cheers and happy snow days,
    R

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  95. greenewable
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Thank you!!! Happy Snow Days.

  96. carlywrites
    December 7th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    oh my goodness! I was just tweeting about missing snow…yay

  97. Gerry
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    I saw the falling snow on Uphilldowndale and was enchanted – had to go get some for Torch Lake Views. (It’s 16 degrees F. here in northern Michigan, so it’s entirely appropriate!) Thanks for the seasonal fun!

  98. phill51
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    It is 18 degrees here and it is snowing :O) thanks for the tip though

  99. saftsuse
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Got loooads of snow where I live in Norway. My shortcut to the bus doesn’t feel shorter anymore, I have to walk about 20 meter with snow up to my knees.. :P Might aswell add some snow to my blog then, eh. ^^

  100. fluffywelshsheep
    December 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    thanks :) almost got real snow here in Central Scotland, UK

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