What is this? It looks more like hail now. It was softer and squishier when it fell out of the sky only an hour or so before this picture was taken. There was a slight bit of snow up on Summit above Los Gatos. It will probably melt as quickly as the clouds clear to let the sunlight through. Snow sometimes appears on the higher peaks around the region, but is rare in lower elevations. Forty three years ago from today, on February 5 in 1976, snow fell in the Santa Clara Valley. It was about half an inch deep in some areas, an inch and a half in others, and was the last snow to fall there.
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Tony Tomeo 
Your Buick was covered with snow? Great. picture of the year for sunny California.
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Oh my! How embarrassing. It was neither sunny, nor a Buick! That slushy stuff is on the windshield of a very worn out old 1989 S10 Blazer. (Years ago, we started calling it a ‘Bravada’, because I would rather drive an Oldsmobile than a Chevrolet.)
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The snow level in SoCal was predicted to be at 2,000 feet last night — I can’t yet see snow, but it’s cold enough, and wet enough that it could have happened!
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Ha! I just breezed past the pictures in your post. I will be back to see it tonight. Yous snow is more visible than ours. We can not see much past the forest.
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Forty one years ago today the Northeast was buried in something called “the Blizzard” of ’78.” As much as 3 feet of snow feel over 2 days. I was living in NJ on an island at the shore at the time–I remember them clearing the streets with bulldozers because we never got snow in amounts like that. It was crazy.
Karla
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I can not imagine snow here now. There are more than million people in San Jose now, and many of them would be stranded.
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Snow was falling up in the Sierra Nevada foothills as low as 1000′ elevation! The last time snow fell where I am was in 1998. If you scraped up all the snow from your yard you might be able to make a snowman about 6 inches high!
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Not seen snow for years
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Does it even snow in your region? I would suspect you saw it somewhere else.
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Never snow here we are sub tropics. But I grew up in England, lots of snow there…
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Oh, of course. Most people here are from somewhere else where it snows.
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Hard to find anyone born on the Gold Coast
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The regular winter nuisance and problem-causer here in the east for us is a treat for you once in a while. But yours goes away so quick, and that’s good.
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It is ‘interesting’ but also a concern. The limbs of coastal redwoods break from the weight of it. It makes a serious mess of the forest.
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Leaves on trees and snow and ice sure aren’t a good mix, no. A few years ago we got 6″ of snow way too early, and trees and limbs broke everywhere around here, lines down, etc. I had a friend over with his chainsaw to help clean up my back yard.
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It is worse for trees that are not adapted to snow.
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It sure would be. Our trees drop their leaves in their natural cycle. But that big one years ago came late in October, and that was a mess.
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Reblogged this on Tony Tomeo and commented:
Just to be clear, this is reblogged from February 5, 2019.
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