# It's snowing... in Tucson! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891 "2013-02-20T18:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/21 "2013-02-20T23:43:13Z")
The snow fell in the middle of the WCG-Accenture Match Play golf tournament and play was suspended until tomorrow. Tiger Woods is one of the golfers participating but didn’t get to tee off today. He’ll be playing tomorrow instead. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/22 "2013-02-21T03:37:56Z")
Does this count as snowing in Hell? ---
**Author:** ![Timetrvlr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Timetrvlr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timetrvlr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/23 "2013-02-21T04:02:17Z")
Congrats Palo Verde! Into every life a little snow should fall. I’ve never heard of it snowing in Tucson but I do remember a 6" snowfall in the Tombstone/Sierra Vista area back in the late '80s. I recall breaking trail all the way from Tombstone to Sierra Vista then wearing my Yukon parka while we cleared snow off the cars in our sales lot. Sierra Vista is south of Tucson but a 1000 feet higher in elevation so it’s cooler. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/24 "2013-02-21T04:05:15Z")
I was hoping for some fun personal pictures, but I admit, it happened. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/25 "2013-02-21T04:23:41Z")
It’s snowing again! And since it’s night time, it’s sticking around more. I woke my kids up and they made a mini-snowman. Our backyard is all white! They’ll remember this day a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/26 "2013-02-21T14:26:35Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > It’s snowing again! And since it’s night time, it’s sticking around more. I woke my kids up and they made a mini-snowman. Our backyard is all white! They’ll remember this day a long time. Are you going to change your name? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/27 "2013-02-21T14:33:36Z")
Sounds like a great day to stay in and put on ZZ Top’s _A Sleet in the Desert._ Yes, the real name is _Asleep in the Desert_ but hey, we’ll just keep that our little secret. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/28 "2013-02-21T14:33:49Z")
Palo Blanco? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/29 "2013-02-21T21:56:19Z")
We’ve lived here for 6 years and this was a first for us. [http://s202.beta.photobucket.com/user/hdiggitydog/media/misc%20pics/snow%20in%20Tucson/DSCF3885\_zps5b492f89.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2](http://s202.beta.photobucket.com/user/hdiggitydog/media/misc%20pics/snow%20in%20Tucson/DSCF3885_zps5b492f89.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2) [http://s202.beta.photobucket.com/user/hdiggitydog/media/misc%20pics/snow%20in%20Tucson/DSCF3904\_zps994fe429.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0](http://s202.beta.photobucket.com/user/hdiggitydog/media/misc%20pics/snow%20in%20Tucson/DSCF3904_zps994fe429.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0) [http://s202.beta.photobucket.com/user/hdiggitydog/media/misc%20pics/snow%20in%20Tucson/DSCF3902\_zpsf45d5ad0.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1](http://s202.beta.photobucket.com/user/hdiggitydog/media/misc%20pics/snow%20in%20Tucson/DSCF3902_zpsf45d5ad0.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1) > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Damn, I just left Tucson last Friday. > > Guess I did spend the right week there on vacation after all. Did you go to the Gem and Mineral Show **QtM**? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/30 "2013-02-22T15:54:52Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Well, we still have the rodeo. And the gem show. > [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Did you go to the Gem and Mineral Show **QtM**? I’ve had a '70’s Tucson Gen & Mineral Show framed poster of watermelon tourmaline on my walls for decades now. I’ve got to make that exhibit some year, come snow or shine. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/31 "2013-02-22T17:36:00Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Did you go to the Gem and Mineral Show **QtM**? Nope, sunned (what there was of it), swam, and hiked in Saguaro and Catalina parks (into Romero canyon, to the far pools. Took a dip in one of the pools. Unintentionally. Ow. Brr.) Also visited Sells, AZ and dined on some fine Tohono O’odham cuisine (bean-intensive but tasty.) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/32 "2013-02-22T18:15:57Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I’ve had a '70’s Tucson Gen & Mineral Show framed poster of watermelon tourmaline on my walls for decades now. I’ve got to make that exhibit some year, come snow or shine. I know the poster, and that show is on our bucket list. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/33 "2013-02-22T18:56:13Z")
I tried to find it. [This](http://www.tgms.org/2012posterinfo.pdf) and [this](http://flaggmineralfoundation.org/home/tgms-posters-2/) was as close as I could get. I think I’ll start a thread next week asking dopers to post pics of their best mineral specimens. I bet we’ve got some good’uns and more than a few from Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/34 "2013-02-22T19:01:48Z")
Obviously this proves global warming is a hoax. Which means, of course, that the second Ice Age people really WERE right! Bring on the mammoths! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891/35 "2013-02-22T19:51:14Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I tried to find it. [This](http://www.tgms.org/2012posterinfo.pdf) and [this](http://flaggmineralfoundation.org/home/tgms-posters-2/) was as close as I could get. I think I’ll start a thread next week asking dopers to post pics of their best mineral specimens. I bet we’ve got some good’uns and more than a few from Arizona. I’d be all over that, **lieu**. I’ve been going to the show for 25 years and have a house full o rocks. Here are [some pictures from this year’s show](http://s202.beta.photobucket.com/user/hdiggitydog/media/misc%20pics/Tucson%20Gem%20and%20Mineral%20Show/DSCF3839_zps93478e41.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0)./hijack [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-snowing-in-tucson/650891.md?page=1)