Steve Webb: Hello and welcome to day seven of the 2022 encore of
the 2009 season of the Lifespring Why Christmas show
hosted by James Cooper, creator of whychristmas.com, and me, the
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James Cooper: Hello, and welcome to day number seven of the 2009
Lifespring Why Christmas Show. Today I'm going to be taking a
brief look at snow and ice associated with Christmas for
half the planet in the southern hemisphere. It's actually summer
at Christmas time. So why will the snow well that's down to Mr.
Charles Dickens and his book A Christmas Carol. He wrote it in
1843 and remembered the very snowy Christmases he'd had as a
child. The book became very popular, and so snow and
Christmas became associated with each other. And of course we
have white Christmases. Now the most famous white Christmas is a
song sung by Bing Crosby, who recorded it in 1942. And it
comes from the film Holiday Inn set in the snowy Christmases of
the month in the USA. If we have a white Christmas, what are we
going to do with all the snow? Well built snowman Of course.
Now the world's largest snowman was built last year in 2008. In
Bethel, Maine in the USA. It was a snow woman called Olympia Snow
and she stood 122 feet one inch tall. Well that's 37.21 meters.
That's an awful lot of snow. The previous record also belong to
Bethel, Maine, and a snowman called Angus King of the
Mountain. To find out more about snow and ice, head on over to
whychristmas.com and come back tomorrow to find out another
little something about Christmas.