~"Warm & Sunny" California

[Mike_G]

Currently 31 degrees here, but dry thankfully. I put our bottle of celebratory champagne outside last night to chill it as it's colder than in the fridge.

Stoked the woodstove with some oak I've been saving and got the house up to 78 degrees last night. Happy 2015 to all!

[Petetrucker07]

Im not lookin for sympathy, at all. I kinda enjoy the cold. It just makes building models a bit tough as i dont have a heated garage.

Edited January 1, 2015 by Petetrucker07

[thatz4u]

Glad I live on the West Coast......of FLORIDA

Edited January 1, 2015 by thatz4u

[unclescott58]

A job I use to have, had me traveling all over the United States. One year, I saw snow while driving through mountains in Arizona weeks before we had any snow back home. Despite what one thinks, it does snow in both California and Arizona.

Scott

[ChrisBcritter]

Was fun to see that Pasadena and Chicago had the same weather today: 32°, no snow, and sunny (so the Hawaiian bands' conch shell blowers in the Rose Parade were wearing more than loincloths this year ).

Where I used to live in Yucca Valley was at the 3200' level, so snow was usually a once-a-year deal, and melted within a day, but it made the desert very pretty:

And sometimes you'd spot something interesting on the road:

[chunkypeanutbutter]

RE : "Global Warming" (preceded by "Global Cooling") , et al. , is nonsense in-so-far-as "man's contribution" is concerned . It's really an arrogant notion to "believe" (indeed , assert ) that our activities would impact the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 years old Earth so immensely .

Try telling a school teacher that. Theydunlaikit.

[Petetrucker07]

I remember being stuck on hwy 95 about 2 miles south of Searchlight Nv for 12 hours, about 5 or 6 years ago. Searchlight is about an hour south of Vegas. That was a crazy storm. Vegas got quite a bit snow in that storm. I was stuck in a hotel all week till the I15 south reopened. We got 2 foot of snow and it stayed for about a week.

[slusher]

Glad I live on the West Coast......of FLORIDA

But what about Hurricane season Al, When my aunt was alive I saw some bad pictures she took that was not on the news...

[Agent G]

I think Vegas was the safe zone of this storm. It went all around you. I heard Baker got snow, and Laughlin got some.

Vegas was literally the eye of the storm. Baker, Laughlin, Bullhead, Kingman all got snow and it just swirled around our valley.

G

Edited January 2, 2015 by Agent G

[Petetrucker07]

Vegas was literally the eye of the storm. Baker, Laughlin, Bullhead, Kingman all got snow and it just swirled around our valley.

G

I remeber sittin in my room at the Gold Strike tgere in Jean, watching the news. That was a crazy storm. Places that have never gotten snow before, got a bunch of it.

Vegas has gotten a few freak storms in the last few years. I was going through Mesquite about 3 years ago when that crazy rain came through and flooded you guys out. I missed the last 1, last year, the 1 that closed the 15 north of Apex there.

[Dave Van]

Some photos from another "Always Warm & Sunny" California day :

1.) My 1972 Coronet @0615 HRS today :

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2.) Lake Elsinore , facing-south , south-side of the lake @1050 HRS today :

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3.) "Say , how's the view out of your Sentra's backlite ???"

Not an isolated incident . I witnessed numerous dirt clods operating their vehicles with snow'ed-over glass !

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Temp's in the 30's during the day , with high-teens tonight .

The nice thing is that none of the dwellings are built to accommodate cold temps / snow !! So , the houses / apartments / buildings are flippin' cold !~

"Enjoy the Rose Parade you out of towners !"

That's what we in WV call Tuesday!!!!

I grew up in So Cal....so I'm aloud to laugh at how the So Cal folks act during 'cold' weather!!!!

I watch KTLA on DISH and love how the news covers the 'cold'. At the first of the week it was 38 degrees and people were wearing coats and hats heavier than I own!!! It's all a POV.....and I'll be in So Cal next week.....so I'll see if it's REALLY cold!!!!

[Quick GMC]

It snows in southern california and arizona all the time, but not usually at or below sea level.

Ihave family in sedona az and its not odd to see snow there. There are several ski resorts in southern ca. But where it snowed was pretty much sea level. We are below sea level and it snowed decently here back in 1979. We didnt get any this year but it was close

[Agent G]

I remember being stuck on hwy 95 about 2 miles south of Searchlight Nv for 12 hours, about 5 or 6 years ago. Searchlight is about an hour south of Vegas. That was a crazy storm. Vegas got quite a bit snow in that storm. I was stuck in a hotel all week till the I15 south reopened. We got 2 foot of snow and it stayed for about a week.

December 2008 to be precise. Snowed upwards of 8" at my house. I'm just above 3000 ft in Henderson. Folks got so flustered coming home in rush hour they abandoned their cars on Eastern Avenue. I was heading to work and just passed them all by.

Stupidiest move I saw that night was the driver of a late model Corvette in my subdivision. He had the car all crossed up with the pedal floored spinning his way up hill. The rear wheels caught and the car went over the curb into the bushes.

G

[1972coronet]

An arial photo of Temecula (I-15 / CA 71 , looking northwest) from 31-12-2014 :

Temps have been in the mid-20's at daybreak ; high temps around 45-50 degrees at around 1550 HRS .

There is still snow lingering on rooftops , in fields / yards , and vehicles ; typically on the north and east sides .