PHOTOS: Let It Snow in Dunedin!

Got memorable photos like this one from Jack Merryweather taken at the Dunedin Holiday Parade and Old Fashioned Christmas? Share them in this community album!

Did you catch the snowfall downtown on Saturday? Jack Merryweather shared this photo of a little boy wondering in the magical glow of a street lamp at Dunedin's Old Fashioned Christmas on Dec. 8.  "It almost looks like a painting. The man with the boy on his shoulder just walked by as I shot it. His face is priceless," Merryweather wrote to Dunedin Patch. The city brought in about 26 tons of ice from Gainesville Ice that was chipped into tiny snowflake-like pieces through a mulcher.  Much of it was used to form a "snow mountain" where children could sled. The rest was used for a play area and "falling snow" on Main Street and Pinellas Trail. Patch readers Stacy Mixon, Monty Seidler and Debbie Hubbard also contributed photos from the …

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What to Know for Dunedin's Old Fashioned Christmas Today

Here's everything you'll need to know about the Dunedin Holiday Parade and Old Fashioned Christmas going on downtown this evening. Also, a few other events you may enjoy this weekend.

Snow in Forecast for Dunedin Saturday

Local Parks & Recreation Athletic Coordinator Greg Svendgard is calling for snow this Saturday evening for the Dunedin Holiday Parade and Old Fashioned Christmas.

The National Weather Service may only call for a low of 64 degrees this Saturday, but Greg Svendgard is going to make it snow in Dunedin. Svendgard is coordinating the near weather miracle on Main Street for the city's annual Dunedin Holiday Parade and Old Fashioned Christmas, for the first time in about five or six years. About 23 tons of "snow" from Gainesville Ice will arrive in the form of ice blocks and be chipped into tiny snowflake-like pieces through a mulcher. It's enough to cover a 6- to 8-foot-high slide about 25 to 30 feet long in the parking lot between Blur Night Club and the Dunedin Historical Museum. The "snow mountain," as city staff refers to it, will allow children to simulate sledding downhill. Another three tons will …

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