# snow in southern CA **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981 "2004-11-21T20:17:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/1 "2004-11-21T20:17:19Z")
I live in Yucaipa CA, at the elevation of about 2400 feet. We’re 20 miles or so East of San Bernardino. I woke up this morning to almost half a foot of SNOW in my yard! Vehicles were sliding around my street and it was still comming down. I walked to church, _uphill both ways_ and helped shovel walkways. We had some syrup in the Junior High room for making shave ice, so we made real sno-cones. It may not be a big deal to Cold weather folks but to our family that grew up in Hawaii, it’s pretty special. Any other southern CA dopers get snow today? ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/2 "2004-11-21T20:35:47Z")
I’m in the San Fernando Valley, to the northwest of downtown LA. No snow, but lots of rain last night (Nov. 20th). Looks like the rain headed your way and turned to snow in the higher elevations. Right now, it’s simply cold and gloomy. A good day to stay indoors and sip hot tea and write papers that are due in a few days. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/3 "2004-11-21T20:51:23Z")
Hey, Roadwalker! [Snow.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287853)😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/4 "2004-11-22T00:15:32Z")
My brother lives in Apple Valley and called yesterday to report 20 degrees and five inches of the white business. My niece hates it. She has no idea why, though. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/5 "2004-11-22T00:17:09Z")
Oops, make that 29 degrees. Down in the valley, the valley so low…We don’t get no snow. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/6 "2004-11-22T01:02:20Z")
Okay I scanned MPSIMS for snow topics, I thought 6 freaking inches was TMI thing. :wally [Here](http://groups.msn.com/TheFauxFamilyDavidandPrajna/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us) are some pics taken today. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/7 "2004-11-22T03:19:03Z")
> [@Roadwalker](#): > > We had some syrup in the Junior High room for making shave ice, so we made real sno-cones. word of advice…dont eat yellow snow 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/8 "2004-11-22T04:50:17Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > My brother lives in Apple Valley and called yesterday to report 20 degrees and five inches of the white business. > > My niece hates it. She has no idea why, though. I’m in Apple Valley, and concur on the 5 inches, but not the 20 degrees…maybe 30-34. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/9 "2004-11-22T07:01:36Z")
I was down in the Long Beach area last night, so no snow there–but a ton of rain! What got me, though, was the thunder. It was so loud it shook the windows, and I had originally thought it was an earthquake at first. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/10 "2004-11-22T17:58:58Z")
Check that, [8 inches.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5525046#post5525046) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/11 "2004-11-22T20:46:05Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > I’m in Apple Valley, and concur on the 5 inches, but not the 20 degrees…maybe 30-34. I’d corrected it to 29, but no matter…I imagine it feels about the same in that range. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/12 "2004-11-22T23:46:13Z")
Sunday was 40 degrees and raining in Palm Springs, not a nice combo for a home health nurse (out of the car, get wet, dry off, get a chill, into the car, out of the car, repeat 6 times). You could tell once it cleared that the views would be spectacular. There was a tiny bit of snow on the hill south of Palm Desert (hill, not mountain). So today, it cleared, and wow - I’ve been here since 1993 and never seen anything like this. It truly reminded me of when I lived in Salt Lake City, only the mountains to the west of PS are closer and bigger. Sunday night, there was that white glow from the west, kinda eerie. I expected to look up on the mountain and see a big glowing “U” like they have at the Univ. of Utah. Now we need it to warm up quick, for all those people coming into town on Thanksgiving holiday, expecting to swim and play golf! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/13 "2004-11-22T23:53:05Z")
This is so funny! We haven’t even had our first snowfall of the year here in Chicago! (Well, it’s predicted for tomorrow.) I’m actually going to California tomorrow for Thanksgiving, but I’ll be awfully surprised if it starts snowing in the Bay Area. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/14 "2004-11-23T02:21:53Z")
[QUOTE=Roadwalker] I live in Yucaipa CA, at the elevation of about 2400 feet. We’re 20 miles or so East of San Bernardino. I woke up this morning to almost half a foot of SNOW in my yard! Vehicles were sliding around my street and it was still comming down. I walked to church, _uphill both ways_ QUOTE] “Uphill both ways”?? Did you have an earthquake while you were there that changed the elevations? Or did the snow get REALLY deep on the initially-downhill side of the trip? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/15 "2004-11-23T02:29:33Z")
up hill both ways? did I say that? Sorry couldn’t resist the _walked in the snow uphill both ways_ stuff. It was only uphill going to church and just two blocks. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/16 "2004-11-23T02:37:51Z")
Snow in Southern California, I vaguely remember it, but it did happen. There was a times when I was in high school in Redlands, that it snowed, but that was in ancient times, circa 78 or 79. Some of my friends tried to ski on the ‘slopes’ of Redlands CC, but they had as much luck doing that as we had trying to ‘surf’ at Mentone Beach. I do find it a little humorous that you had snow in the San Bernardino Valley before we had any here in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/17 "2004-11-23T13:14:12Z")
On a visit to Huntington Gardens (San Marino, CA) I saw a photgraph from 1953, showing the gardens cloaked in about 3" of snow! The caption said that snow is recorded in the area, about once every 15-20 years. I don’t know the elevation of San marino, but it does get cold enough on winter nigghts for snaow to stick. Has miami, FL ever recorded snowfall? Herein Boston, we had a big snowstorm in 1977 , in late May-man that was weird-the leaves wereout and the heavy wet snow brought a lot of branches down! ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/18 "2004-11-23T13:57:03Z")
My mom lives in Morongo Valley, about an hour out of Palm Springs. She called me yesterday to tell me that they got snow, but I didn’t hear exactly how much. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/19 "2004-11-23T15:46:15Z")
Hey **beckwall** , I’m thinking about heading out to Palm Springs in February or March timeframe for a little R&R and pampering. Provided it’s not snowing still ( 😉 ), you got any recommendations for a good place for a gal to stay? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981/20 "2004-11-23T16:23:48Z")
:: severe look to the southwest :: How did you guys in California manage to steal our snow? Sunday here in Toronto we had a snowless Santa Claus parade. That’s been happening more and more. I even saw people getting in some late gardening and _laying sod_ today! Give us back our snow. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-in-southern-ca/275981.md?page=2)