Snow In Southern California

The snow didn't come early enough for a White Christmas, but Southern Californians in Valencia and Antelope Valley enjoyed light snowfall outside their windows January 2, 2011. But while the unexpected snow may have delighted some local residents, it posed problems for many commuters trying to make it home after the holidays.

 

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According to the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles motorists experienced massive traffic delays on what was the last possible day for Angelenos to return from their vacations in time for work this morning. Sections of the I-5 at the Grapevine and Highway 58 have been closed since yesterday due to poor weather conditions and resulting accidents. Commuters also encountered travel delays along snowy stretches like the Cajon Pass on the I-15 southbound, where Highway Patrol officers had to escort commuters to ensure road safety.

The National Weather Service warns that "winter weather conditions" will continue to affect Southern California mountain ranges, with eight to fourteen inches of snow expected to fall above 4000 feet, and with snowfall expected at just 1500 feet in areas like the Santa Clarita Valley. Southern California residents in these areas should expect continued traffic delays as a result.

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[Don Drake]

01:03 PM on 01/08/2011

Thank you Mom and dad for coming to visit. Sorry you got stuck in this on your way home!! We love you. Your picture #2 Rocks!!

[themanchild27]

02:49 PM on 01/05/2011

Woah that's so weird I just a dream avoid driving through a snow storm on the pch

[romeoforever]

10:56 AM on 01/04/2011

Actually, this IS being caused by global warming. The overall global temperature has been rising which has caused weather systems to shift from their old patterns. That snow on the outskirts of LA is a lot scarier than you think. We all need to get a clue.

[derrickhoyle]

12:17 PM on 01/04/2011

Relax. It's January. This happens in the high desert and higher elevations around LA every year.

[Lucky123]

12:49 PM on 01/04/2011

Yes, higher elevations, like say, the 4400 feet at the Grapevine, but NOT in Santa Clarita, at 2000 feet, where it snowed for the first time since 1989.

[idcsys]

03:52 PM on 01/05/2011

Nah. Just signs of the Apocalypse. Snow in SoCal, dead birds in Arkansas, Louisiana and Sweden, thousands of dead fish in Arkansas and Maryland, etc. Not to worry.

[Charlie Ham]

10:28 AM on 01/04/2011

damn global warming

[Dawg1000]

08:58 AM on 01/04/2011

Nothing to see here, folks. Just a typical weather pattern moving through the southland. It has been happening since the beginning of time and will continue to do so

[Lucky123]

12:51 PM on 01/04/2011

There is NOTHING typical about this.

It snowed in Santa Clarita for the first time since 1989. That is not "typical".

If it truly were "nothing to see", it wouldn't have been a national news story.

[citizen of the universe]

05:18 AM on 01/04/2011

You want proof of climate change, go outside! The10 mph winds out there is making it colder than a witches t*t here in Fontana, but the snow looks pretty!

[dashcat]

03:48 AM on 01/04/2011

It is so neat to see snow falling in Valencia. This is definitley wacky weather.

[coveark]

01:54 AM on 01/04/2011

In 1949 it snowed about 6" in the Walnut/ Pomona area.

[sleepingcobra]

01:20 AM on 01/04/2011

Hell just froze over.

[ResearchGuy]

09:56 PM on 01/03/2011

I grew up a half century ago on the edge of the desert in Southern Calif., at about 1400 feet elevation. We had snow every ten years or so (enough to stick on the ground for a while). Rare, but not unheard of here and there, now and then. Yes, after nearly 40 years in the Sacramento area, climate change is obvious here, but with odd variations year to year. I'd not make anything of a day or week's weather, or even an unusual season, in any particular place. It's the big picture that counts. FWIW.

[LoKeys]

08:38 AM on 01/04/2011

my first year at UCDavis, december 1976, we had a snow storm, four inches fell over night , accumulated, looked amazing..

[jackjon]

09:37 PM on 01/03/2011

This is normal isn't it?
Doesn't it always snow in the higher elevations when the rain comes through?

[buddy51]

12:05 AM on 01/04/2011

For the most part, yes, but a few places like Valencia where I live only get snow that actually accumulates on the ground every decade or so, the last time being 1989. So for us it's kind of a big deal.

[Lucky123]

12:53 PM on 01/04/2011

Yeah, Frazier Park and the Grapevine get snow, where the elevations are above 3500 feet.

Valencia is about 1800. Parts of Castaic around 2000. This was far from typical.

[derrickhoyle]

03:22 PM on 01/04/2011

It has snowed at the beach in Malibu. It doesn't happen every year, but it's not unheard of.

[Indie5000]

09:19 PM on 01/03/2011

Without higher temperatures and CO2 levels, life on earth will cease to exist. The earth's population has increased exponentially and having higher temps and CO2 is the only way to produce enough oxygen and food to sustain life.

[You Are My Density]

12:55 AM on 01/04/2011

Where did you hear that one?

[Hitchcockcameo]

03:37 AM on 01/04/2011

gawd, what are you babbling on about?

[Indie5000]

04:23 AM on 01/04/2011

Facts.

[Trudy Trejo]

08:50 PM on 01/03/2011

Only the sophisticated few among the intellectual elite can comprehend the complexity of how the anthropogenic global warming phenomenon produces colder climates. The unwashed uneducated and simple minded masses will bleat about this as being proof that global warming is a fraud. Little do they feeble peon brains know that global warming actually produces a colder climate.

[Indie5000]

09:21 PM on 01/03/2011

Without higher temperatur­es and CO2 levels, life on earth will cease to exist. The earth's population has increased exponentia­lly and having higher temps and CO2 is the only way to produce enough oxygen and food to sustain life.

[advocatusdiaboli]

12:28 AM on 01/04/2011

Are you a robot? If not then are you too stupid to understand itis a matter of degrees and percentages? The impending shift will wreak havoc on the biosphere that has adapted to another weather and climate pattern. But perhaps man's time is coming to an end and nature will fill the gap after man declines in dominance. Can't say the Earth will miss his rule much. Actually it will probably cheer.

[Hitchcockcameo]

03:43 AM on 01/04/2011

Please, I need a medical doctor to operate on my ruptured spleen. You're not a doctor? You're not an expert in the medical field? I don't care. I want the dummest person I can get to operate on me, and tell me how everything will be just fine -- in fact I hope this person has a lot of simple-minded friends...one to administer anesthesia (who cares about the exact amount of a gas I need), a dum-a$$ woman posing as a 'nurse' to hand garden implements to the 'doctor'. Everything will be fine, because we don't need experts, or elites in this country. We only need id|ots who have a gut feeling, old time adages, and who think they know what they're doing.

[skyslimit]

08:37 PM on 01/03/2011

Don't blame me, I ride a bike to work!

[1849]

09:25 PM on 01/03/2011

Don't blame me I walk or take public transit.

[LLisaLL]

10:07 PM on 01/03/2011

Don't blame me, I work from home.

[johnnygoodwud]

07:08 PM on 01/03/2011

al gore should have used the term 'climate change' instead of 'global warming' and perhaps more people would have believed him. yah, yah, i know global warming causes climate change. i'm just sayin'.

[You Are My Density]

12:57 AM on 01/04/2011

Let's face it. It doesn't matter what Democrats do. Republicans will ALWAYS find something about it to criticize. Always.

[LoKeys]

08:41 AM on 01/04/2011

put THAT in your lock box al gore !