Snow??? In San Francico???

[AsahinaKimi]

Snowstorm picks up speed, heads toward Bay Area

(02-23) 19:07 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Get those parkas out now, because the snow is racing even faster to the Bay Area than forecasters had thought.

Whether that means the wet whiteness will actually stick to the ground rather than melt as soon as it hits is still up in the air - which is mighty cold as air goes, but not lock-on sure to be cold enough to create snow.

Weather expert predictions on that vary by the hour, and as with all things weatherwise, even the experts are saying the only way to be sure is when the snowflakes land on your tongue.

As of Wednesday evening, the forecasting consensus was that the target time for fluttery cold things to start dropping on the region is tonight, not Friday night, courtesy of an Alaskan cold front sweeping our way.

The first snowflakes are supposed to fall in the North Bay, but by Friday afternoon, people in downtown San Francisco could well be gawking at them as well.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F02%2F24%2FMNHV1HT2T6.DTL

Talk about climate change...O.o"

[Rabblevox]

1. GIVE US OUR SNOW! DAMNED CALIFORNICATORTORS....

(kidding about Californicators, I was raised in southern California, and lived in the bay area for about 10 years)

Portland, OR usually gets 3-4 in of snow/year. Not a lot, and I'm not a huge snow fan. But we've had our driest, warmest winter in many years. The recent storm, expected to drop 1-3 inches, left nothing more than a trace...a dusting.

We've had about 1/10 of our usual snowfall. It means that this summer our mountains will be browner and drier than ever. It means our fish runs will be thin.

And in terms of geo-politics, it means that we ain't gonna have the power to sell to California this summer like we usually do. (which hurts both OR and CA)

"Water Wars" probably won't happen in the western US this year, but they're coming. And I'm fucking terrified. Because the water really is running out.

[PADemD]

2. I would not want to be driving on your hills in snow!

PA is bad enough.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Snow in Puget Sound area, too.

Meanwhile, northeast Colorado is wondering where winter went. . .


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[spin]

4. Is Al Gore attending any events in San Francisco?

On a serious note, it snowed in San Francisco 35 years ago.

The weather could get weird in San Francisco, where the first snow since 1976 is a possibility Friday. The Los Angeles area and Las Vegas also might see a few flakes.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/02/24/US-weather-taking-another-wrong-turn/UPI-80351298528996/

[Luminous Animal]

5. Actually it snowed in 1998. None stuck but everyone I know who lived here at the time

remembers the lovely quarter-sized fluffy flakes and I have pictures of my daughter running around in the backyard with snowflakes in her hair.

[Stuckinthebush]

6. Maybe in the summer

but now? In the winter? Crazy talk. :D

[ljm2002]

7. It does happen once in awhile...

...in fact sfgate has been running a series of historic photos on the snows in S.F. of years past. I think the most recent photos were from 1976. So it doesn't happen often!

[EFerrari]

9. I remember snow in 62.

Enough snow that you could make a snowball. My mom didn't believe me. :)

[cliffordu]

10. Yep - I remember that -

I was out in Antioch.

[WilliamPitt]

8. They got ice in the hills across the Bay one April when I lived there.

Never saw snow.

[Gregorian]

11. Cool! I heard it was suppose to snow at the beach here in Mendocino.

If it does, I'm off for a snow bike ride through the mountains. Now that's an experience I had when it snowed in San Luis Obispo in the 80's.