First Snow in the Sierras...check in!

[FirstLight]

South shore Tahoe/Meyers...
So far about 1/2 inch... still coming at a pretty good rate.

Tomorrow morning I will totally get pics

[BigmanPigman]

1. First rain in Southern CA in 6 months.

I hope you get tons of snow and a deep snowpack. We have had a normal amount for a few years after a severe drought.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/SierraNevada

[FirstLight]

2. After the dump we had this last spring,

They said we got enough water for 3 years...

But it has definitely been a long dry summer and fall. 😔

I am torn. I hate dealing with snow, but I also know it is crucial for so many others...

[mr_lebowski]

3. Rainin' down here Phoenix way as well ... mercury plummeted down to 61F this evening before it was

even DARK out!?! Now at midnight it's all the way down to 58F ... obviously it's like some crazy polar vortex we got going down here

My shorts, flip flops, and t-shirt were BARELY enough to let me stay outside for a vape without a slight shiver ... had to go inside and put on my warm slippers just to finish up ...

[stopdiggin]

4. K. Okay. Gettin' the picture.

Have a little heart. You're bigger than this. (Then again ...)

[mr_lebowski]

5. Hey I pretty much hate it here in general, wanna go back to Cali ... let me have my one thing

that I don't hate, which is the mild winter weather

[handmade34]

9. my daughter is down your way...

(Cave Creek) and she calls periodically to let me know how much warmer it is there than Vermont...

[mr_lebowski]

12. Maybe she's tryin' to entice you? (nt)

[BigmanPigman]

6. I'm glad it's cooling down.

It was 90° and 88° over the past few days. I'm still getting eaten alive by mosquitoes (they are biting everyone's legs in Southern CA this year and not just me).

[BlueMTexpat]

8. I well remember the Phoenix "monsoons"

from the year (Aug 78-Aug 79) that I lived there.

I first saw the Salt River in Sep 78 and remember the wide bridge we crossed to see barely a trickle of water beneath.

A few months later, the area was completely flooded. That was really impressive, although it was unfortunate for those poor fools who lived in the floodplain.

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I don't know whether people in Phoenix still have lawns instead of using the local flora in their yards. But in that era there were still some. Some of those apparently used underground lawn irrigation systems rather than movable sprinklers.

When we were still new to the area, I remember my young sons announcing to me one morning that it had apparently rained overnight, but only on the lawns, LOL!

[mr_lebowski]

11. Okay so there's 2 things I like ... the monsoons can be pretty damn cool ...

But we only had 1 show up this last season (seen as many as 7 or 8 decent storms in past years) and it wasn't even a very good one.

I have a lawn in my backyard with sprinklers mounted in the ground but only cause it was here when I bought the place. It's not big, maybe 15x30 ft.

Still a decent number of people w/front lawns but I'd guess they're less common than they were.

[BlueMTexpat]

13. You must have one of the

"magic" lawns that mystified my sons, though not for long.

Enjoy and please help to elect Mark Kelly for the Senate seat!

[CountAllVotes]

7. My friend lives there

He received a phone call and an email telling him that the power is being shut off!

I hope to god he has a few cords of wood on hand!

This is hell for the people living in the foothills of the Sierra's not to mention the Lake Tahoe area and anywhere else that is freezing right now!



STAY WARM everyone!!

[hlthe2b]

10. My goodness you are late this year.. October 10 was our first. Enjoy, though...

and of course, stay safe driving. Maybe you get a ski day.