During winter break, the temperature was often in the 50 degree range.
On Christmas day, people from the East Coast compared the weather to the weather in California.
“I’m used to snow on Christmas!” Yasmine Louis, a freshman psychology major, said. “I was reminiscing about my childhood cause you know when you’re little it always snowed on Christmas Eve or days before Christmas and now it was so warm.”
Although Louis was used to colder weather and snow on Christmas, it did not bother her that the temperature for the majority of the break was higher than usual.
“I liked the warm weather. I was not at all prepared for the coldness that we have now,” Louis said. “I would say it being hot towards the beginning of winter, it kind of gave people more time to prepare.”
Other students like Meghan Dougherty stated that their winter break consisted of mostly working so the warmer weather was not a problem.
“The warmer weather was great. I loved it so much because I didn’t have to warm up my car and I had to go to work so I usually didn’t have time to warm up my car,” Meghan Dougherty, sophomore international business major, said. “It impacted me positively because I really don’t have winter clothes.”
Many students seem to only care about snow on Christmas Day.
“A lot of people miss the snow but I really don’t miss it,” Dougherty said. “I wish that I could have had a little bit on Christmas but other than that I really don’t care.”
Students at Cabrini believed that the snow would have stopped them from doing things that they wanted to do and were grateful for that lack of snow.
Alicia Maynard, a freshman double majoring in human resources and accounting, said, “I think the weather was good because sometimes the warm weather makes me feel happy and new and I can go out and do stuff. If it’s snowing then you can’t go anywhere and you have to wear boots and it’s too much.”
Some people had different opinions on whether or not the warm weather made it seem less like Christmas
“I’m still used to it snowing on Christmas and going outside,” Louis said. “I didn’t even have a Christmas tree. I didn’t even have any decorations up.”
Some students thought that the weather did not take away the Christmas spirit at all. “I don’t think it made it seem less like Christmas but it is something different because obviously we’re so used to the idea of Christmas time but for me personally, it didn’t make me feel any less Christmas-y,” Maynard said. Students like Oleidi Merejo, did not see anything unusual about the lack of snow but were more concerned about the climate change and how our warm weather was affecting other parts of the world. Oleidi Merejo, a freshman international business major, was born and raised in the Dominican Republic.
“The warm weather was great because you know you’re on break so you get the chance to go out a little more and enjoy the nice weather,” Merejo said. “You don’t have to be carrying a lot of clothes but at the same time it also worries me because it has to have an environmental impact.”
Merejo saw the warmer weather differently than anyone else, thinking more about the long term effects and people across the world.
“It worries me because maybe in some part of the world they’re getting affected by this while we’re enjoying it here.”
Merejo agreed that the warmer weather did not make it seem any less like Christmas.
“Where I’m from, it’s always warm, but where I work the costumers were saying that it felt less like Christmas because ‘it’s supposed to be nice and white outside’ but to me it was just normal,” Merejo said. “Better for me.”
