No Snow in California: From the New Yorker...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

From the New Yorker

napabob Loc: Napa CA

I have to plead guilty of harassment of this nature............

DanielB Loc: San Diego, Ca

jerryc41 wrote:

From the New Yorker

...and you better because they will tax you for it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

napabob wrote:

I have to plead guilty of harassment of this nature............

Of course, and that's why everyone smiles when they see jokes and comments like this. It's the same situation with Florida, but they don't even have mountains that get snow. I think the highest point in FL is 8" above sea level.

napabob Loc: Napa CA

jerryc41 wrote:

Of course, and that's why everyone smiles when they see jokes and comments like this. It's the same situation with Florida, but they don't even have mountains that get snow. I think the highest point in FL is 8" above sea level.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

No snow in California? What do you think all those people are skiing on in the Sierra and Tahoe?
We recently had snow down to 1000 ft. in the Bay Area, and there was even snow in Southern California: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-snow-20190221-story.html

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

jerryc41 wrote:

Of course, and that's why everyone smiles when they see jokes and comments like this. It's the same situation with Florida, but they don't even have mountains that get snow. I think the highest point in FL is 8" above sea level.

Global warming and sea level rise will probably get us quick at 8"!!!!!!! We had flurries several times over the last 50 yrs, but the only real "snow" is the illegal stuff...…. I do have some old Kodachrome shots of a thermometer in my back yard showing 12 degrees one cold winter long ago.... today it is 76 degrees and sauna humidity! I'm at 14.5 ft. above mean sea level, but am in the St. Johns river basin, can't see any mountains from my house, I think the I95 overpass is at 20 something ft.

Halftrack

jerryc41 wrote:

Of course, and that's why everyone smiles when they see jokes and comments like this. It's the same situation with Florida, but they don't even have mountains that get snow. I think the highest point in FL is 8" above sea level.

My home is higher than that. If this old brain can recall, the highest elevation is 345 feet. My home is 16 feet, so with global warming, I may have beachfront property at some time in the future.

lbrande

I live in So. Cal. at 1400+ ft altitude and my wife said we had snow/hail on the ground.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Also So. California here, Riverside County - Corona
Snow on the mountains North and South of us. Plus several cities around here had snow or hail or both including some of the housing developements on the slopes on the south side of the city - it didn't stick. But above 1500' the snow stuck.
Yesterday I spent over 2 hours driving around to high points to get shots of the mountains, both north and south. I shot sequences for panos with both my 5DIV/24-105L and 80D/100-400L. I will work on those tonight and tomorrow (today is tax day for me, leaving to the account's office when I am done with this).
But my wife told me to take a couple of shots of what she can see out the livingroom window-one of her favorite things about the house is that she can see the mountains, and snow in winter. So I stood in front of the house at the center of the window and did two frames: one at 24 mm and this one at 105 mm.
So, palm trees, flowers, bright sunshine(in the 60s), blue sky with couds and snow covered mountains.

Our special needs son used to compete in the Special Olympics Winter Games when they held them in Big Bear. He has a drawer full of medals, mostly sking. I kind of miss those trips up to the snow for Sp O or his training with the Big Bear Adaptive Recreation Center. But not enough to drive up there just to see the snow up close.

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krashdragon

jerryc41 wrote:

Of course, and that's why everyone smiles when they see jokes and comments like this. It's the same situation with Florida, but they don't even have mountains that get snow. I think the highest point in FL is 8" above sea level.

My gps has found 23' on I-10. However, it's sitting on the dash in my Volvo truck, so subtract 6-7 feet. :0)

MikeJ Loc: North Georgia USA

Highest elevation in Florida: 345 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida%27s_highest_points

Ray and JoJo Loc: Florida--Tenneessee

Sugarloaf Mt., Fl. almost 315 feet above sea level, Jerry.
Sugarloaf Mountain (Florida)

Highest point in peninsular Florida

Sugarloaf Mountain is the fifth-highest named point in the U.S. state of Florida. At 312 feet above sea level it is also the highest point on the geographic Florida Peninsula. The mountain is in Lake County, near the town of Clermont. en.wikipedia.org

Location: Lake County, Florida, United States
Latitude: 28.64308
Longitude: -81.7188
Mountain Range: Lake Wales Ridge

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

robertjerl wrote:

Also So. California here, Riverside County - Coron... (show quote)

Jerry, there is a place in Norco where you can get an unobstructed view of the mountains to the north and over to the San Bernardino's. Hidden Valley Wildlife center. It is right on the river, so any houses are across the river.
Ellen

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

hassighedgehog wrote:

Jerry, there is a place in Norco where you can get an unobstructed view of the mountains to the north and over to the San Bernardino's. Hidden Valley Wildlife center. It is right on the river, so any houses are across the river.
Ellen

Thanks I will check it out.

I would really like to get up the dirt road to the top of that hill west of Hamner between 5th and 6th. But the road is gated and locked.

Or those housing projects on the hills south of the 91 and east of the 15.