I just casually looked over the fence and noticed my 'born again' Evangelist neighbor actually putting up one of those huge shade umbrellas over his car, so I asked him why and his reply was, " In a my dream last night Jesus told me to cover my car because it will snow here today."
I mean, it's the middle of SUMMER here and Broken Hill hasn't seen snow since before Moses was out of nappies at least.
A friend I knew in Seattle in the mid-nineties was from Frostbite Falls Minnesota. He went to visit his mother one Christmas and she told him 'Don't forget to plug in the car -- it's supposed to get cold tonight'. He replied 'What do you mean by cold? It's been -5 degrees all week'.
I'm sorry -- I grew up in AZ. That kind of weather is just outside my experience.