> “That means we have the real Christmas snow.”
Well, maybe, but not likely. They have the snow from a well-intended but arbitrary chronological switchover.
Now if they have snow from 6 - 4 BCE[1], then it's likely they have first Christmas snow/ice. (Not that anyone in Bethlehem saw it!)
[1] Or "BC," since we're talking bout the reason for the designation after all.
It starts with:
In a narrow aisle of shelves packed with cardboard boxes, Jørgen Peder Steffensen grins like a mischievous child unwrapping a holiday present as he pulls out a plastic-wrapped hunk of ice from a box marked Keep Frozen.
The bag of ice contains the transition from 1 BCE to 1 CE, he says. “That means we have the real Christmas snow.”