Snow in this part of Spain is a once-every-few-years type of thing. Although the roads are now officially treacherous, people don't mind. This amount of snow (50 cm at the higher elevations) is indeed rare, and these days amid the growing rhetoric of "climate change" people must resist the urge to cite an occurrence such as this as evidence for or against it. Granted, it will probably be used as 'proof' that there is no global warming. Some will accept that bland argument, others will reject it outright. It should be rejected outright on its own. It may be that this weather is a symptom of an ever changing planet, but taken alone as an argument for or against the well established theory of climate change, it is rendered meaningless. Taken together within the larger picture of increasing incidents of weather variability and, most especially with the now mounds of relatively long-term data that have been collected globally that show an anthropogenically changing climate, it can be significant. Climate change deniers are generally the non-scientific types, that is, superstitious, supernaturalists and frankly, irrational. I don't want to paint many of them with the same brush, but that is my observation of the frequency of such weak arguments.

Before climate change appeared on the public radar, any given weather event would be considered an 'act of god'. Funnily, you can still probably even insure your car under such a clause. Act of nature? Better. Nature's intentional vengeance for sinful humans? Decidedly no.

Now that I got that off my chest I 'm heading out to make snowman! :)

Peace,

Grant