Posted on 12/08/2008 1:13:10 PM PST by JohnJeykis
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - December 8, 2008 (OWSweather.com) Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California.
With a week away, and a sure sign of things to come, OWSweather.com is making preparations on the server to handle the traffic from this next event. UJEAS is in line with the majority if not all the other models in keeping a near historical arctic air mass into the Southern California region.
With a warm November, Southern California is finally ready for cold storms to make their way in. Resort level snow will be likely next week, and in pretty hefty amounts if things stay on track. OWSweather.com Meteorologist Kevin Martin predicts a 50 year event. While Martin is usually conservative on these events, the pattern highly favors it.
"We are in a pre-1950 type pattern, "said Martin. "We know we are due for a winter storm sometime this year. The type we may be dealing with will be ranked up there with the known years before 1950, which set record low daytime temperatures into the forecast region. With this, may come low elevation snow."
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I really hope this happens just for fun. I live in SoCal, but am originally from KC, so I know the natives won’t know what hit them. I just have to learn enough Spanish to tell the gardener not to let my plants freeze.
The silver lining is my fruit trees will get a nice chill and the buds will set up nice for next year’s crop and its donation to the local squirrel invasion .. Obama and squirrels, what good are they anyway? They just sit there and stare at ya.. smug, their mugs saying ‘come and get me, punk!’
We need snowpack, preferably further north,, fingers crossed
bump
Get ready to wrap your outside connections if freezing is expected in your neighborhood.
Pass this on to other FReeper CA residents please.
Dam global warming. You just can’t trust anything any more.
Global Cooling! :D
And ice on their wings.
It’s the “Gore effect.” Everytime the environuts have a meeting on man-caused global warming hoax,record cold saturates the area.
Al must be planning to surf Malibu with a few of his tree humping buddies.
This is caused by my ex-wife's visit to the State.
You know, up here I’ve noticed we can get down to around 19 or so if it’s for only one night without any problems with outdoor spigots and so forth. I do leave one tap with a slight dribble. Anything below that and I’ve always taken precautions. Or if it stays below freezing for even one 24 hour cycle you’d better drain and bundle things up. I rigged my heat tape up with switches this year so I don’t have to plug in and unplug constantly, because the auto cutoff is up around 45 and that’s too warm. Hundreds of watts gets expensive.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!
It must be series — when Rick Dickert on KTTV gets excited, I pay attention.
Then again, they’re all liars. I’ll wait and see what my homie Dallas Raines says tonight.
Hans Holbein was very busy painting portraits in early 16th century England. I'm guessing England was a bit colder than it is today.
Those TV mets are always late. They don’t know anything. Quit living life by their word when I’ve seen them fail miserably, giving CA a bad rep for weather forecasters.
Are those pipes in a crawl space? My spigots come out of the basement and I’ve never done anything to protect them. They’ve survived many below zero nights with the lowest at -22. Over 30 years in this house.
Horses were passing lots of gas back then.
Ain’t just Cal. Whole west coast.
Spozed to get colder than a witches mitt here later in the week.
Glad I just got a refill on my propane!
Sorry, the article is from a Southern California Weather Forecast Office. If it mentioned up the entire coast, I would have added OR/WA in the news list.
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