Yikes! Snow in....San Francisco!?

[3113]

Okay, it was just a light dusting...but it happened!

As a Pacific storm coincided with a blast of cold Canadian air over their fair city, residents here saw snow late Friday, a long-absent visitor for a city accustomed to fog, sweater-weather and other nearly bone-chilling accoutrements. Predictions had called for the possibility of the first significant snowfall in San Francisco since February 1976, when all of an inch fell, according to the National Weather Service. And just before midnight, several high-lying city neighborhoods, including Twin Peaks, at some 900 feet, reported light snowfall.

The scattering of flakes capped a weeklong flurry of activity among civic leaders and commuters — as well as dreams of flying down some of the city’s famous inclines.

...just before midnight, those snow showers fell, inteterrupting local televsison broadcasts for up-to-the-minute reports. Meteorologists were reporting the city might — just might — get a dusting on Saturday as well, as a Canadian cold front lingered over the city and spotty showers moved in from the ocean.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

All I can say is 'they deserve it'.

 

[stephen55]

Okay, it was just a light dusting...but it happened!

My neck of the woods got a light dusting as well. So I fired up the snowblower and dealt with all 15 cm of the stuff. (Call it about 6 inches.)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q5DXGUwN0xk/S2OpTbjGAfI/AAAAAAAAC30/8SFPZUn4iIk/s320/honda-snowblowers.jpg

Damn, but does Honda make a great snowblower!!

 

[kromen]

Shut down the roads and break out the sleds if it happens again.

 

[HeyAll]

It hasn't happened in SF. It's been cold though, especially in the evening and night where it's been around 30-40 degrees.


But it has snowed in the South Bay.

 

[TE999]

Whooee! With all them hills a Frisco Snow would be awesome. You could break the sound barrier on a sled.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Whooee! With all them hills a Frisco Snow would be awesome. You could break the sound barrier on a sled.

not to mention your damnfool neck!

 

[Boxlicker101]

I remember that snow in 1976, although I seem to remember it was in March that year. I worked in SF and lived in Oakland and, as I was getting ready for work, I looked out the window. I was shocked, so I looked again. I saw a lot of snow in WI and MN, but that was the first time since I left there, which would have been in 1959.

There was enough to make snowballs. It was pretty good packing snow, as I recall, and I threw a few of them at stop signs, etc. It's a lot more fun to avoid too much maturity.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yeah, it must be the pesky global warming.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The mountains behind L.A. look like the Canadian Rockies this morning.

 

[stephen55]

It's been snowing for the entire weekend here. On top of that, there's a stiff wind blowing snow everywhere. Time to fire up the snowblower again and clear about a foot of the stuff from my driveway, taking care to send all the snow onto my neighbor's driveway.

 

[Loring2]

Alas .. poor Marin County

No snow in San Rafael, Fairfax actually, last night; cold enough, 27 F, but no moisture.

Just as good, we wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.

 

[3113]

The mountains behind L.A. look like the Canadian Rockies this morning.

Stunningly beautiful! Makes you wish all days could be like this in LA, crisp, cool, clear, green surroundings, and simply awesome snow capped mountains in the distance.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Stunningly beautiful! Makes you wish all days could be like this in LA, crisp, cool, clear, green surroundings, and simply awesome snow capped mountains in the distance.

You just need to be rich enough to own two homes, one in L.A. and one in Tacoma, Washington. I remember the days I spent at Madigan General Hospital with the forest all around, acres of lawn (parade fields, actually) and snow-capped Mt. Rainier looming in the background. Gorgeous in the summer . . .

 

[stephen55]

You just need to be rich enough to own two homes, one in L.A. and one in Tacoma, Washington. I remember the days I spent at Madigan General Hospital with the forest all around, acres of lawn (parade fields, actually) and snow-capped Mt. Rainier looming in the background. Gorgeous in the summer . . .

Right now I wish I owned a second home on Maui.

 

[3113]

Right now I wish I owned a second home on Maui.

Your dog (the one in the avatar) is ahead of you there....

http://destinysclubmutt.com/Images/Sled%20dog%20on%20vacation.jpg

Saw that new round of snow falling an said, "Enough with pulling the damn sled! I'm outta here!"

 

[stephen55]

So that's where Arrluk has gotten to! I turn my back for one minute...