;-)
Posted on 01/10/2020 8:47:13 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A potent winter storm slammed Southern California on December 26, delivering heavy rain, snow, and even a tornado. The storm brought between 1 and 3.5 inches (2.5 and 9 centimeters) of rain to low-elevation areas. Several inches—or feet in some places—of snow fell on higher ground.
On December 28, 2019, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of snow stretching across the region. Note there is a line of scattered clouds—not snow—over the Los Angeles Basin that extends south along the coast.
Mountain High Resorts (elevation 8,200 feet/2500 meters) in Los Angeles County reported 36 inches of snow, prompting the popular ski and snowboard area to close temporarily. In the San Bernardino Mountains, Big Bear Lake nearly broke an all-time winter snowfall record after receiving 18 inches of snow.
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In Joshua Tree National Park (Desert), the rare snowfall had a more calming effect.
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(Excerpt) Read more at earthobservatory.nasa.gov ...
Ski resorts had to close because of too much snow.
Trump’s fault!
No, Gretta’s fault...
With the image with the snow cover, start the cursor at Big Bear Lake, then come down till you are just below the show line, then move left till it seems the cursor is just below a mountain pass.
I grew up just west of that point.
Use to ski at Big Bear and Mt. Baldy.
Corpus Christi,TX had a white Christmas a few years ago. Now THAT is rare.
If the globe gets any warmer we will all surely freeze to death.
Weird Algore vacationing in JTNP around that time, maybe?
Yucaipa?
I spent my last several months in the USAF at Edwards AFB, which is “high desert.” And, yes, we had a couple snowfalls, enough to make snow balls and snowmen.
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Rialto.
Highland for me!
Kinda makes you want to bonk her on her head with one of her Participation Trophies...
So that mountain pass would be the Cajon Pass?
Definitely! LOL
Yes. Cajon Pass.
You can see it on the map as it snakes between the rise up and to the east towards Arrowhead, Crestline and Big Bear, and the rise on the west of Cajon Pass across Devore and up toward Baldy.
I first experienced Cajon Pass in 1956, before the I15 was built, when it was still Route 66, when we first arrived by car after a cross country trip from up state New York.
We landed at “Motel 66” on Business Rt. 66, Mt Vernon Avenue, where we lived for nearly two months while my parents found a house for their family. It was March and Big Bear and San Gorgonio still had snow on them.
I know the area well. My parents surely took the same route when they arrived in 1954 after a cross country trip from Erie, but they kept rolling and ended up in La Mirada.
I’ve hiked San Gorgonio and San Jacinto, spent weekends at Big Bear and Arrowhead, Sundays at Oak Glen.
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