I'm a reasonable man, MacArthur..

[gridlore]

We have snow in the Bay Area. Not down to the valley floor.. yet. But they're calling for more showers and the predicted snow level keeps dropping. This morning it was 2500 feet. By the time I was heading home, it was down to 1000 feet, and the hills to the east of Fremont were white.

For the record: the last time it snowed down to sea level here in the San Francisco Bay Area was February 1977. I was in 4th grade, and as I recall they gave up trying to teach us half-way through the day and let us loose to hurl ice balls at each other.

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Comments

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

Pay it no mind, excellency - it never sticks.

[10binary-cats.livejournal.com]

Wll if you will release the dancing penguins...they will dance the penguin snow dance.

[supersniffles.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was in 4th or 5th grade, too. Over in northeast SJ we only got about 15 min. of the stuff and it didn't stick. Lunch had just ended and we'd all gone inside when Dick, our principal got on the PA and told us "It's snowing! Get out there and play in it!!"

[jonathonbarton.livejournal.com]

My recollection (also as a 9 year old kid) from the south end of San Jose (where the 101 and 85 meet now...back then, the 85 was just the PERFECT field for riding your Stingray up and down for MILES) was HEAVY frost on Saturday or Sunday morning...and Snow sometime during the week.

I also remember it being BITTER cold...my recollection is that it felt as cold as it is here in Denver these last couple days.

Of course, in '77, it was probably 30*.
Last night when I got home, it was -7.

But then again, I have more, um...insulation...on my body now than I did 29 years ago. :)

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

It didn't quite reach the valley floor, but I and cherylmorgan saw snowflakes falling in the parking lot of the Walgreen's at El Camino Real and Grant Road (CA-237) in Mountain View five years or so ago. The flakes were melting just before they reached the ground.

[isomeme.livejournal.com]

That was the most amazing day! My clock-radio alarm turned on KGO right in the middle of someone babbling "Snow in the City, snow in Oakland, snow in Marin, and probably snow in your backyard!" I muttered "nah" and went to look out the window...and there was more than an inch of snow on the fence rail, and the ground was white. The I woke the rest of you up.

Remember building a row of micro-snowmen? :)

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Doonesbury? I don't remember the next line, though.