FWD [extropy-chat] Re: Merry Christmas SoCal: No Global Warming

[Terry W. Colvin]

Well, had they been around for the Easter 1999 surprise when it snowed
here, in Tucson and the Phoenix Suburbs... Actually, I think they happen
more than once a decade but I'd have to look up the climo. The storm was
one of those that surprises but it was not in the class of the famous
January 1949 storm which put snow in downtown LA-even along the beaches.
That was the storm that brought the only snowflakes ever to San Diego
(Trace) and one of two occurrences of snow in Yuma. January 1949 was also
when Vegas had 17 inches of snow and when Canelo and the Apache Powder
Plant near Benson bottomed out at -6°F (since 1995, however, there have
been remote weather stations close to the San Pedro River due east of SV
and a bit upstream and they have recorded winter temperatures that
surprised the researchers initially-last December when Douglas hit +8°F,
one of the sites recorded a -2°F). Willcox recorded a low of -10°F in 1962
following the system that brought 4 inches of snow to Fresno and 1-3 inches
to San Jose CA.

Steve
[retired meteorologist]


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