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Post by erik on Dec 30, 2014 23:48:51 GMT -5
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about a West coast "super storm" hitting us. Now, it is a blast of the Arctic!
It is at the end of 2014, and we are about to have the coldest ushering in of a New Year here in L.A. since 1952! A vigorous Arctic storm is blasting us with rain and, if you can believe this, snow inside the northern foothills of the L.A. city limits, down under 2000 feet. Fans of the Oregon and Florida State football teams that are in town for the Rose Bowl, as well as close to a million others here for the Tournament of Roses Parade, are liable to be in for one heck of a cold night tomorrow and Thursday morning, with temperatures hovering at between 28 and 32 degrees for two hours.
I know that for folks back East, this isn't much of anything to complain about--in fact, this is probably hot. But for us, this is a refrigerator!
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Post by sliderocker on Dec 31, 2014 22:58:13 GMT -5
28*F to 32*F would be a heat wave for some areas of the US in winter but not Oklahoma, to hear the weathermen talk. According to them, we're supposed to be in the 40s to 50s for highs and upper 20s to 30s for lows. But, their averages data is skewered in that they only go back 30 years or so, instead of averaging out the data for as long as they've had records. And the weather records here go back to the late 1800s. If they averaged all the temperature records, the average highs and lows would likely be ten to fifteen degrees cooler.
And at the moment, we're at 24*F and tonight we're supposed to be in the teens in most areas, although some areas will be below 10*F and maybe below zero! And for Oklahoma in winter, being that cold is to be expected and perfectly normal, although for the better part of the month, we had above normal temperatures. What has been very unusual here is that most of December, the skies have been covered by the clouds, almost the entire month! I think the count is something like 25 or 26 days out of the 31 days. I don't ever remember it being that cloudy.
Los Angeles hitting 28*F to32*F is something of a rarity but I'm hoping that's not a recycling of the winter weather of the 1950s. Oklahoma in the 1950s had some super subzero cold spells and big snowstorms. The 1960s and 1970s were a little better, not quite as cold but still a lot of snow at times. If it's a repeat, things could get very interesting for everyone.
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Post by erik on Dec 31, 2014 23:09:21 GMT -5
Here's a great example of what this cold storm did; it dropped six inches of snow onto western Riverside County here in Southern California...in the flatlands. This is a picture of a snowed-over vineyard near the city of Temecula after the storm came through this morning:  This is how we will say goodbye to 2014, and usher in 2015--"Funky New Year", from Linda's favorite in-house desperados (the B-side of 1978's "Please Come Home For Christmas"): |
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Post by Dianna on Jan 1, 2015 0:23:23 GMT -5
yes I saw many photos of snow fun posted today by friends and family.. lake Elsinore in particular. I want snow too!!!!! it's been cold here but not a cloud in sight. I don't care what anybody says.. 32 and below is freakin cold.. I could never make it in the mid west.. Happy New Year 2015!!!!!
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Post by erik on Jan 1, 2015 0:31:34 GMT -5
The whole thing was really quite shocking; though the weather service and all the local weathermen in L.A. said that this Arctic blast was going to hit us hard, nobody really expected it to snow quite this heavily. They even had a light dusting in Las Vegas during the night.
Even as I write this, with the new year about to start, the temperature here in Pasadena is at at 40 degrees, and it is dropping fast.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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