snowflakes in socal
December 13, 2007 9:48 AM   Subscribe

40 years ago today. The day it snowed in San Diego.
posted by somnambulation (28 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
I'm slightly suprised the article doesn't contain some (possibly spurious) reference to global warming - that's pretty much required in all discusion of unusual weather conditions now isn't it?
posted by Artw at 9:53 AM on December 13, 2007


My parents live in San Diego, and I live in Chicago. Every time I talk to my dad on the phone he mopes and complains that the weather is 'boring' out there. To which I reply that I'm going to have to hang up the phone, because it is beginning to freeze to my ear and I can't feel my fingertips anymore.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:54 AM on December 13, 2007


Today's the first serious snow storm of the season here in NYC. At least, predicted. Right now it's sleeting.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 9:57 AM on December 13, 2007


Meanwhile, I've seen snow in every single month of the year where I live.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:10 AM on December 13, 2007


San Diego is German for "A Whale's Frozen Vagina."
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:15 AM on December 13, 2007


Actually, it snowed briefly (like, for 5 minutes) just last year. My co-worker directed me to look out the window, and sure enough, there were white flakes lazily floating down into the courtyard of our office building. Certainly not as much as in the link, and it didn't stick at all, but we get our cold (relatively speaking) snaps every once in a while.
posted by LionIndex at 10:18 AM on December 13, 2007


I guess 40 minutes ago today. The day it snowed in Milwaukee. wasn't quite as interesting an article. :)
posted by quin at 10:21 AM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]


My dad used to always talk about this, it was a big deal for him. I sent him the article.

Nowadays when I talk to my mom, she ALWAYS complains about the weather. It's too hot. It's too gloomy. Always one or the other. So if it snowed in San Diego today? I'm sure it would be too snowy.
posted by miss lynnster at 10:25 AM on December 13, 2007


Check out the cool cars in those pictures. Neato. I grew up near San Diego(Escondido) and we always had to drive to the snow, usually Palomar Mountain, to go sledding and visit the observatory. About ten years ago I was doing a military exercise in the Mojave desert and it started snowing. It didn't really stick, but it was pretty neat to see snow in the desert.
posted by Democritus at 10:35 AM on December 13, 2007


Meanwhile, I've seen snow in every single month of the year where I live.

Read that and thought, Wonder where this guy lives, my wife says the same thing about her hometown. Click through to the user profile, and sure enough . . .

So how's about: 7.5 years ago today. The July day it snowed in Calgary.
posted by gompa at 10:43 AM on December 13, 2007


Astro Zombie writes "San Diego is German for 'A Whale's Frozen Vagina.'"

You're so wise. You're like a minature Buddha, all covered in brains.
posted by never used baby shoes at 10:44 AM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]


The day it was Sno Wiego.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:45 AM on December 13, 2007


Bah. We used to have T-shirts that proclaimed "I Survived the Blizzard of '85," and a videotape showing the snow blanketing the ground, causing the creosotes to droop, and depositing a white yarmulke on the tops of the saguaros. December 9, 1985, 3 inches of snow fell in Phoenix, AZ.
posted by darksasami at 10:56 AM on December 13, 2007


blue_beetle writes "Meanwhile, I've seen snow in every single month of the year where I live."

Me too...hey! We live in the same place! So does gompa! We should do a musical number or something about how we found each other in this thread.
posted by never used baby shoes at 10:57 AM on December 13, 2007


That's cool. When I was a kid in the early 80s, we had flurries in Ft. Lauderdale. They sent us all home from school because of how cold it had become (30's, if I recall).
(I type this as I sit looking out my window in Boston desperately trying to see my black car which is dissappearing my the minute in the snow.)
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 11:27 AM on December 13, 2007


I love the picture of the snowman that's about half dirt.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 11:46 AM on December 13, 2007


gompa, that snow happened up near Red Deer, not in Calgary.

But fact is, when we're 51 north and more than 4000 feet above sea level, snow happens.
posted by ethnomethodologist at 12:21 PM on December 13, 2007


I live in LA. The last two days, the official temperature when I woke up (according to the Burbank Airport feed) was 39F. IN THE VALLEY. Presumably it was colder overnight. The sky has been full of beautiful clouds all week. The only reason it hasn't snowed yet (overnight) is that we're also in the middle of a drought.

But hey, if this weather keeps up, perhaps we'll get a white christmas for once.
posted by davejay at 12:48 PM on December 13, 2007


Hmmm . . . 1967, Southern California. Somebody had to be tripping that day.
Is it snowing for you, too?
posted by D.C. at 12:54 PM on December 13, 2007


gale-force winds blew a Canadian cold front far, far off course.

For chrissake, cold fronts don't get "off course".
posted by chips ahoy at 1:06 PM on December 13, 2007


gompa, that snow happened up near Red Deer, not in Calgary.

Couldn't find a news item, but it snowed in Calgary that July as well. Here's a Google cache of how it made Environment Canada's top 10 weather stories of the year.
posted by gompa at 2:10 PM on December 13, 2007


Heh. Well, my hometown church in Wisconsin burned down in 1875 when it was struck by lightning.

In the middle of a blizzard.

On May first.

(There was enough time to save all the pews, including the one that Abe Lincoln had sat in.)
posted by dhartung at 2:23 PM on December 13, 2007


Wow, Calgary represent!
posted by blue_beetle at 2:29 PM on December 13, 2007


Yes, I am old enough to recall this. I was in school when a "blizzard" struck. Our teacher exclaimed, "Children! Come back inside! You act like you've never seen snow before!" Well, duh!
posted by SPrintF at 6:43 PM on December 13, 2007


My parents remember this vividly.

They just had gotten married and moved to San Diego. They had a child who was just two months old when snow started falling.

Yes, I am 40 years old and two months.
posted by vacapinta at 9:20 PM on December 13, 2007


My mom was living in Chula Vista at the time. Apparently she chose that day to sleep in and missed he snowfall.
posted by the_bone at 10:11 PM on December 13, 2007


I was a year old. Apparently I was brought outside to play in it.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:04 PM on December 13, 2007


Aw, my hometown made it above the fold with the pic. I really wish I'd been there to see that little town covered in snow.

Thanks for the article....I haven't read any Peter Rowe in a few months, and I appreciated the U-T all over again reading that.

Now maybe tourists will believe us when we say that yes, San Diego does get weather other than 70 and sunny. Not very often mind you, but we sure bitch about it when it happens ;)
posted by librarylis at 1:45 AM on December 14, 2007


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