Snow in L.A.???

Tony Crocker

Tony Crocker

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<IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/messages/9/2967.jpg" ALT="snowftla.htm"> <BR>I thought FTO readers would find this picture entertaining. It is hail, not snow, and the intensity of this storm (5 inches water content in 3 hours) over about a 10 square mile area was reputedly a 100-year event. The area affected is totally flat about 10 miles inland from the Pacific and thus far from mountains and any orographic uplift event.
 
That's just amazing, that much hail. Never in my life did I think that it could be possible.
 
The accompanying article said that the causes were: <BR>1) A cutoff low that stalled over this small area <BR>2) Unusual atmospheric temperature differentials of as much as 100 degrees. <BR> <BR>The latter is extremely rare in SoCal. I had always heard that it's quite common in the Midwest, which is also why that region is the tornado capital of the world. <BR> <BR>The hail was uniformly gravel size and thus not large enough to damage buildings, cars, etc.
 
Wow, that is very impressive. I think I saw the tail end of a news clip on that and wasn't quite sure what they were talking about. Someone said something along the lines of "Well, it does look like a winter wonderland there in L.A." That caught my attention...but as I can see now it was just massive hail accumulation and not snow <IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/clipart/happy.gif" ALT=":)"> <BR> <BR>Exactly what was the depth of that hail? It looks like feet. <BR> <BR>-Scott
 
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