From the “weather is not climate” department…
Apparently, Nature is weighing in some support for action in Sacramento to end California’s economically punishing anti-carbon law. We saw earlier this winter some significant snowfall in Los Angeles, but Hollywierd continues to suffer the cold shoulder and chill wind of nature even as spring is well underway.
Today the National Weather Service issued the following advisory, cautioning potential snowfall in LA county in the Antelope Valley and Santa Barbara, with snow accumulations of up to 4-7 inches possible:
Message: NOAA-NWS-ALERTS-CA20110408105400WinterWeatherAdvisory20110409040000CA.LOXWSWLOX.611659150894b39c2a4df414a15dd389 from w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
Sent: 10:07 PDT on 04-08-2011
Effective: 03:54 PDT on 04-08-2011
Expires: 21:00 PDT on 04-08-2011
Event: Winter Weather Advisory
Alert:
…A COLD LATE SEASON STORM WILL BRING SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS AND PORTIONS OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY…
.AN UNSEASONABLY COLD UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA EARLY THIS MORNING WILL TRACK SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WHILE MOISTURE WITH THIS SYSTEM IS SOMEWHAT LIMITED…THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME UNSTABLE DUE TO THE EXTREMELY COLD AIR ALOFT. THIS SHOULD ALLOW FOR NUMEROUS SHOWERS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND THE ANTELOPE VALLEY LATER THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON…CONTINUING THROUGH THIS EVENING. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS…SOME OF WHICH MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. SNOW LEVELS WILL RANGE FROM 2500 TO 3000 FEET…WHICH WOULD BRING ACCUMULATING SNOW INTO THE HIGHER PORTIONS OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY…PARTICULARLY IN THE FOOTHILLS. SNOW WILL LIKELY IMPACT TRAVEL ON INTERSTATE 5 OVER THE GRAPEVINE… PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY AND THE ANTELOPE VALLEY…HIGHWAY 33 IN VENTURA AND EASTERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES…AND PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 138 IN THE ANTELOPE VALLEY.
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOS ANGELES/OXNARD HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING.
* TIMING: SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE BY LATE MORNING…THEN NUMEROUS SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 7 INCHES ARE EXPECTED.
* SNOW LEVELS: 2500 TO 3000 FEET.
* IMPACTS: SNOW WILL CAUSE SLIPPERY DRIVING CONDITIONS ON INTERSTATE 5 ACROSS THE GRAPEVINE…PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 14 THROUGH THE SOLEDAD PASS AND HIGHWAY 33 IN VENTURA COUNTY.
Instructions: A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES…AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
Target Area:
Los Angeles County Mountains excluding the Santa Monica Range Ventura County Mountains
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
I have a great idea, let’s have our next convention in Cancun….
….it can’t get us there /snark
Having lived in Newport Beach, CA, my favorite memories are of floating with my body board off the peninsula and looking back at the San Gabriel Mountains covered with snow in March. It is a little late in April, but it’s not the first time, nor the last that snow visits SoCal in April.
There are some fine pictures taken from several of the piers along the coast, showing beautiful waves and wonderful snow covered hills and mountains. If it weren’t for the CA problems, I’d say that as far as weather goes, you can have it all in SoCal.
Meanwhile up here in the Sierra it was 6F at my house last night.
And today’s paper says our current snowpack is #4, behind….04-05, 05-06, and 82-83, with the largest snowfall on record. with plenty more snow on the way!
Spring keeps coming earlier, and earlier….
Chains or snows over the grapevine?? Been there, done that. Long, long ago, before the climate was changing. It must be changing, when there’s snow over the grapevine these days. Fort Tejon is a wonderful place to chain up. If you get that far.
In L.A. in the mid 1980’s there was an April day with temperatures over 100. On that day, Hollyweird was the hottest place on Earth, hotter than the Sahara Desert or Death Valley.
And now, snow.
/sarc: total proff of global cooling, this one event.
Likley Al Gore is around. Worse than we thought.
Is Al Gore in LA?
sarc on
Look people, this is actually proof that mankind is warming the planet, what we have here is a severe instance of a WarmCold front coupled with a strong WetDry system. This weather event is completely consistent with our very robust models that have predicted extreme cold weather events due to the warming atmosphere, along with above average moisture in areas that will dry up and blow away very soon.
We regret that people the world over are being harmed by these extreme weather events, and we reiterate that all of these disasters have been caused by the West in general and the sceptic camp in particular for not giving up all of their freedoms and their cash to save the planet.
sarc off
In contrast England is basking in a ‘summer type’ heatwave.
Nature does not like Gore…
But as usual, the blaming GB wagon will come along.
It was in the 80s here in the High Deserts on Monday, and its only 45 today with the threat of snow.
Off topic but this Delingpole blog is worth looking at:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100083071/uea-the-sweet-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning/
Basically the Press Complaints Commission has supported Delingpole (a UK blogger) versus UAE.
I’m getting real tired of scraping snow off my rig every morning-even for NE
Oregon….
“In contrast England is basking in a ‘summer type’ heatwave.”
Well, it was 20C yesterday in Gloucestershire and 18C today, with beautiful sunshine. Wouldn’t count as a heatwave in June or July, but it still beats the pants off last December. Colder by Tuesday I think.
Rich.
Spring? What spring? Where?
It’s been a such a ‘fun’ winter that last night the deer came right up to the house for a hearty midnight snack, munching on all the tender shoots of green from the bulbs in the flower beds. Everything else is still the desolate brown of winter — kinda hard to start turning green when it keeps on snowing like it did the other day. Wonder if we’ll be getting a pretend summer this year.
I won’t feel so bad that there ws ice on my vehicle’s windshield twice this week, waaay to the north in Victoria BC.
😉
Meanwhile, the Baltic is frozen solid. ‘This past winter has been particularly harsh, allowing [ice roads] to stay open for longer than usual.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9450807.stm
Even though the Arctic will be ice free in…… whenever.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13002706
When will the weather service stop using ALL CAPITAL letters?
Nothing about this on the BBC but they are running yet another scaremongering story about how rising sea levels may drown New York according to new computer simulations.
Nice to know the BBC has a handle on what might happen rather than what is happening isnt it? Although if sea levels start to level off or even start falling then al the computer simulations the BBC has thrown at us over the years are going to look awfully silly.
“potential snowfall in LA county in the Antelope Valley and Santa Barbara”
The portion of Santa Barbara County in question is Highway 33 near Pine Mountain Ridge. That’s nowhere near the city of Santa Barbara. The summit is 5,160′, so snow is common.
What was the weather like in CA about this time about 206 years ago?
Vuk etc. says:
April 8, 2011 at 11:02 am
In contrast England is basking in a ‘summer type’ heatwave.
And in SW France we have over 30°C. Broken all records for the first week of april in both the UK and SW France.
Isn’t this the result of the arctic ice caps melting?
aaron says:
What was the weather like in CA about this time about 206 years ago?
Well, obviously, it was much colder. That’s what the models tell us.
/s – do I need to spell it out?
Snow causes slippery roads?
Well, who’ld of thunk it.