A peek at Victorville Ca yesterday, while not much, it's always a treat on the high desert.
Posted on 11/22/2004 7:36:26 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
An unusual type of storm nicknamed an "insider slider" blanketed Southern California mountains with up to 3 feet of snow and even coated desert areas with white. Children built snowmen and had snowball fights in low-lying towns such as Murrieta in Riverside County, where Chris Sousounis said he was told it would never snow when he moved there from Chicago.
"Somebody lied," he said as he swept piles of snow off his pickup truck.
The weekend storm was tapering off Monday, although an additional 6 inches fell in some mountain communities.
The storm developed in British Columbia and swept into Nevada before reaching California. It was called an inside slider because of its rare track into Southern California from the northeast instead of the typical route off the Pacific Ocean.
"This happens about once every 10 years, and when it does, it's bad," said Ivory Small, chief science officer for the National Weather Service in San Diego. "You get about every type of weather. ... These systems are tricky to predict."
Up to 3 feet of snow was reported in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains east of Los Angeles.
Snow closed Interstate 15 through the Cajon Pass northwest of Los Angeles for about five hours Sunday morning. Snow and ice also closed several roads in San Bernardino County, said California Highway Patrol dispatch supervisor Doug Showalter.
As much as a foot of snow covered desert areas of northern San Bernardino County, and 6 inches fell in desert communities such as Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms. Lake Elsinore, southeast of Los Angeles, measured 3 inches.
Strong wind in Irvine toppled a tree onto a home, and some of the occupants suffered minor cuts and bruises.
A peek at Victorville Ca yesterday, while not much, it's always a treat on the high desert.
Global warming/Bush's fault.
Woohoo! Love that snow! :) (I'm a lifelong Wyoming resident)
[right hand] Snow in the desert ------ Global Warming [left hand]
Yeah. That seems about right.
Damn global warming agian. Sure is cold looking warming though.
Of course it is!
/sarcasm
I think Global Warming predicts crazy weather-- not just super hot weather everywhere.
When I retire, I plan to hold my snow-scraper up in my right hand, and start walking south.
When somebody asks me, "Hey Mister, what's that in your hand?" I'll know I've gone far enough!
Schoolbus stop smashed by tree limb.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot; it is Algores fault.
Damn Global Warming thanks to the evil Bush and Karl Rove driving around in his Haliburton SUV.
I remember the first year that I lived in California (1988), it snowed 11 inches and was 19 degrees.
Boy was I surprised!
Of course It was the 'high desert' and I was living in Lake L.A., just outside of Palmdale.
We were on our way down to San Diego yesterday. It looked like Saddleback had snow down to the 1,000 foot level; when we passed by Trestles, there were surfers out at Churches and San Onofre.
In fact, this is real simple science.
QUESTION: Is an object warmer the closer it is to a heat source?
ANSWER: Yes.
EXAMPLE 1: A human body is warmer when it is closer to a fire place.
EXAMPLE 2: A metallic object is warmer when it is closer to a fire place.
EXAMPLE 3: A <insert object> is warmer when it is closer to a fire place.
So, if the Sun is burning the hottest it has been in recorded human history (Sunspots activity at 8,000 year high), then doesn't it stand to reason that things (like, you know, PLANETS!) would be hotter too?
Come on, folks. This is the easiest thing to figger out. And, as a reminder, the Sun is ALWAYS actively heating at least 1/2 of planet ALL THE TIME.
So, take your pick. Some elaborate self-inflicted pollution scheme or simple physics.
Pretty easy choice.
Is that Lake Arrowhead?
"Is that Lake Arrowhead?"
No.
It's Lake Los Angeles! (or Lake L.A.)
It's just east of Palmdale between Palmdale and VictorVille.
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