Seriously, I would pay to see snow falling on the streets of Los Angeles. Do you know of any date in history where it actually snowed in LA? Do you think it could happen this winter?

Interesting question, for real.
I also hope someone will send us some picture in case.
L.A. covered with snow!? :eek2:

I found this, but I don't think it's too accurate. It doesn't seem too professional.

http://www.losangelesalmanac.com/topics/Weather/we17.htm

and this short story with a title that pretty much answers the question of this thread.

http://www.deanspace.com/lasnow.htm

I would love for a miracle to occur.... you know there is a strong chance that we are going to be in the middle of a major storm for New Year's Eve... so imagine.... snow in New Year's Eve!!!!! Damn that would be great. I'm sure snow has fallen at some random date in the LA metropolitan area.... now I have no clue when, and it probably was like less than 3" like two hundred years ago..... but I swear if it snows this December I'm going to take it as a sign for a lot of stuff I have in my head for next year. It sucks that it doesn't snow in Los Angeles. I've never seen snow fallen from the sky. I need that.

naaahhh... We Need Our Eyes To See, You Feel?

There was a tornado warning for South LA yesterday. And I think a tornado touched down in Inglewood. It was on the news this morning anyway.

It snowed in Compton last year. But nothing extreme or anything. I remember being in Moreno Valley when it snowed..I think it was in 2001 or so. That was cool. Snow everywhere. It's a pretty thing to see a palm tree covered in snow.

It's a pretty thing to see a palm tree covered in snow.

Yeah that's what I'm talking about.... so there is a chance....

Imagine the Interstates if it started to flurry a bit! Cars would be upisde down, people would hanging off of street lamps.. It would be like Day After Tomorrow.

Yeah that's what I'm talking about.... so there is a chance....


Although that palm tree may die.

Snowed down in Murrieta and all along the lower hills in Temescal Valley a month or so ago but that is far from LA.

Really? In November? Thats early!

...It snowed in Compton last year.

If you're talking about those few blocks that were covered, that was hail not snow. It hailed almost everywhere that day, but for some reason a few blocks in Compton got dumped on. On TV the residents were calling it snow, but the news people said hail.

That almanac seems pretty consistent with what I had read from other sources.

Snowed down in Murrieta and all along the lower hills in Temescal Valley a month or so ago but that is far from LA.

Murrieta/Winchester/Temecula is roughly 80 miles from Downtown [I would know ;) the drive bites] :)

This was taken on Nov. 22nd in Winchester ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/lazyjunk/DSC01113.jpg


...... this is SUPER rare. [definitely hasn't happened in the last 15 years]

when was this?

when was this?

This was taken on Nov. 22nd in Winchester ...

2004

:)

No I don't think it's going to ever snow on the streets of Los Angeles. I guess I'll have to drive to San Bernandino or something.

If there's ever even a half inch of snow in LA, I believe the city would shut down completely

what an old thread haha

I recall there being some snow in Brentwood last winter.

yea it totally snowed in Westwood (up the hill from the village, by all the student housing) last winter... I think I saw a picture in these forums of a mini snowman someone built

let it snow...let it snow!

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My dad used to work for a this really rich guy [he was a Vanderbilt] and this guy used to take so many photos. I saw one of his backyard, in Brentwood, covered in snow.

I recall all of the northern hills in the San Fernando Valley being covered in snow as well as a couple inches in chatsworth maybe 20 years ago. Chatsworth is inside the city limits so yes it absolutely has snowed here before. REAL snow.

If there's ever even a half inch of snow in LA, I believe the city would shut down completely
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/lazyjunk/DSC01113.jpg
^^ lol, you call that snow? This is what we have to deal with:
http://i22.tinypic.com/300y5is.jpg


Really though, I think it would be cool to see a palm tree covered in snow. That would make an excellent picture.

I have one picture of my childhood home in Hollywood with Mt. Olympus in the background covered with snow. Palms on my street were covered, as were the old cars. This was January, 1949.:)

I want a hurricane in California. Not a strong one. But something that'll give people something to remember.

It's rare that California gets hit with severe weather, but back in 1997, Hurricane Linda (Cat 5) was forcast to hit SoCal, but it drifted out to sea.

From wiki:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Hurricane_Linda_12_sept_1997_2100Z.jpg

At one point on September 13, some computer models were predicting that the hurricane would recurve and make landfall in California. A trough was located in the vicinity of the hurricane. Winds caused by that trough would have recurved the hurricane towards southern California. Due to the possible threat, some media sources indicated that hurricane conditions would affect southern California. However, the National Weather Service in Oxnard, California issued a statement that stressed the uncertainty of the hurricane's path. The statement also indicated the main threat to be rainfall and rough seas.

The large waves caused by Hurricane Linda also resulted in flood warnings being issued for part of the Mexican coast.

There was Hurricane Nora in 1997 (didn't directly hit SoCal but remined 'tropical' when it hit Blythe, Needles, and Arizona).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Nora_1997_track.png

Once it snowed on christmas eve in south texas!

Once it snowed on christmas eve in south texas!



... and you guys have flying roaches :puke: Anyhow!

Getting back on topic: I wonder if this coming Winter is going to get as cold as last year? Maybe possibly more light snow in the basin?

^^ lol, you call that snow? This is what we have to deal with:
http://i22.tinypic.com/300y5is.jpg


Really though, I think it would be cool to see a palm tree covered in snow. That would make an excellent picture.

This isn't a contest

It snowed last year in LA.

It snowed last year in LA.


^ Post #20...:bowtie:

from wikipedia on the san fernando valley

The valley is more likely to get snow during winter months than the Los Angeles basin, although snow in San Fernando valley is quite rare. The last measurable accumulation of snow in the valley was in 1988 while the last measurable accumulation of snow in the Los Angeles basin was in 1960.

This isn't a contest

Did it say it was? It's called a comparison, not a contest.

[QUOTE=northsider1983;15620910]^^ lol, you call that snow? This is what we have to deal with:
http://i22.tinypic.com/300y5is.jpg


^^ actually being taken a picture with some outdated Elvis sideburns or driving a corolla?

^^ lol, you call that snow? This is what we have to deal with:
http://i22.tinypic.com/300y5is.jpg



look at the bright side, after a big snowstorm and I have to shovel my car out, it's a great workout! Really works my arms and upper body. What idiot pays 30 bucks a month for a gym membership in the winter when you can just shovel snow and get a workout for free?? :banana:

... and you guys have flying roaches :puke: Anyhow!


???

It snowed in the movie Crash which was set and filmed in LA, may have been fake snow but it looked very cold

I remember it snowed in Vegas a few years ago and it made the newspapers even here in the east coast.

I remember it snowed in Vegas a few years ago and it made the newspapers even here in the east coast.


It was cocaine coming from one of the executive suites after a while people started seeing snow. ;)

hmm, that must've been when both Britney and Paris were in town

It isn't exactly the LA city limits, but it's only 15-20 minutes from DT...Deukmejian Wilderness Park (http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=102). I live only about 5 minutes from here and we get snow about every 3-5 years up here. It helps a lot that the elevation is 2,000-2,500 feet.

This was taken on March 11, 2006 around 11 in the AM.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/5232/dsc01183nl9.th.jpg (http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01183nl9.jpg)

In 1993 it snowed in San Dimas, and they used to have pictures in the post office, but they took them down. They might have pictures on the website for the city.

In 1993 it snowed in San Dimas, and they used to have pictures in the post office, but they took them down. They might have pictures on the website for the city.


... I'm sorry! this is for snow in L.A. not san demas.:nono: :nono: :nono:

Can you please edit your post!

If there's ever even a half inch of snow in LA, I believe the city would shut down completely

Actually a half inch of snow did fall during the night in Los Angeles back in January 1939 according to a Los Angeles Times story I saw in 1989 when once again it snowed during January.

and I bet there was panic in the streets! :lol:

and I bet there was panic in the streets! :lol:

Actually no panic in the streets since most residents were in bed and most of the snow melted by morning. The Los Angeles public library website has a picture someone took when it snowed in Los Angeles in the late 40's. Just type "snow" in the search box for the photo archives.

The entire city has been covered with snow several times. The last major snow fall in the basin was in 1949 - but I saw numerous pictures of my grandparent's house at Effie and Silverlake covered with snow taken in both the 1920's and the 1930's. And my father remembers sledding down the hills in the area during a 1930's storm. And I do have a postcard - somewhere -showing a snow covered Broadway Downtown.

Brady Westwater

Did someone say snow in LA?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/louman84/SNOW2WINTER51.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/louman84/SNOW1WINTER51.jpg


^^
Snow in Silverlake. I've seen a picture of Glendale Community College covered in snow in a book somewhere.

that would be the coolest thing ever to see that much snow where i live. i think everything would shut down either from shock or b/c everyone wants to see the snow. no children would go to school. half of LA would die in car accidents b/c we don't know how to drive in snow here.

this year for sure!

this may sound weird since its 85 degrees outside, but i have a feeling its going to snow in LA like those pictures this winter, i really do. maybe a couple times.

this may sound weird since its 85 degrees outside, but i have a feeling its going to snow in LA like those pictures this winter, i really do. maybe a couple times.

^ I would not doubt it for one minute. You've seen how cold it gets at night. I actually have to throw some socks on to keep me warm. I also had some hot chocolate w/ marshmallows last night... Mmmmm!

Can't wait to make some snow angels in front yard!

ya. it was so cold here last night. it was wierd since it hasn't been cold in a while.

if it does snow. how close to the ocean do you think it will get? i want to experience some, but i think i live too close to the ocean(<.5 mile)

I hate snow..Cuz we(canadians, i live in toronto) get snow each year..grrr..i want summer all year around

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/a0/Uclapowellsnow1932.JPG

It's been unusually warm here. I just had the state inspection done on my car and I only wore shorts and a t-shirt. I remember doing the state inspection at the same exact time last year and I was wearing a sweatshirt and jeans because it was cold.

Where in LA was that previous picture taken?

Where in LA was that previous picture taken?

The architecture is very similar to what I've seen around UCLA... but I'm not positive.

ya. it was so cold here last night. it was wierd since it hasn't been cold in a while.

if it does snow. how close to the ocean do you think it will get? i want to experience some, but i think i live too close to the ocean(<.5 mile)

According to Los Angeles Times news accounts it did snow on Malibu beach and nearby hills back in January 1989. As far as I know this was the latest snowfall there. At the same time snow fell on the hills of Griffith Park. Office workers on the top floors of Los Angeles skyscrapers reported seeing light snow falling.

Where in LA was that previous picture taken?

That looks like the Doheny mansion on South Figueroa just south of the downtown Los Angeles South Park area and north of the USC campus.

The entire city has been covered with snow several times. The last major snow fall in the basin was in 1949 - but I saw numerous pictures of my grandparent's house at Effie and Silverlake covered with snow taken in both the 1920's and the 1930's. And my father remembers sledding down the hills in the area during a 1930's storm. And I do have a postcard - somewhere -showing a snow covered Broadway Downtown.

Brady Westwater

cool if you can scan them...i used to live close to effie too! on Avalon..two blocks over...oh, and welcome to the L.A. forums.

That looks like the Doheny mansion on South Figueroa just south of the downtown Los Angeles South Park area and north of the USC campus.

are you sure. it looks a lot like the UCLA architecture.

are you sure. it looks a lot like the UCLA architecture.

Not 100% sure since I haven't seen it since 1991 when I took my car to the Midas across the street.

Where in LA was that previous picture taken?

UCLA

^^ lol, you call that snow? This is what we have to deal with:
http://i22.tinypic.com/300y5is.jpg


Really though, I think it would be cool to see a palm tree covered in snow. That would make an excellent picture.

HAHAHAAHAHAHA u guys in chicago have to deal with that like once every five yrs.it snows like 5 inches every snowstorm on avg there and winters are getting way warmer. The sierras in california get 8 ft of snow in 24 hrs sometimes

and why does everybody want it to snow in southern california??? do u guys like all the dead palm trees and brown frost bitten plants that like warm weather??? if anything i hope we get a wet winter like 04-05 so everythin can be green and lush for spring and summer...

Well, meteorologists are forecasting a warmer than usual winter this year due to global warming. I hope they're right. If I see another heating bill as high as the ones I had last winter, I might just have a coronary :eek:

I remember being in LA in the 70's, in January.. and there was a rumour about that there had been frost on some roofs early that morning... was a bit shocking! :)
For those wanting to see snow on palms, it is more likely to happen in Vancouver... but these are the ultra hardy "Windmill Palms" that are from Nepal, and can withstand temperatures down to -18c. The palms in LA would die immediately, I think!

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/dawnd_01/Summer%20Part%20Two/vancsnowbyWestcoast604i.jpg

its snowed in florida before so its completely possible here.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Tampa_Snow.jpg

from Wiki
Great Blizzard of 1899, Tampa suffered its one and only known blizzard, with "bay effect" snow coming off of Tampa Bay.[26] [2] The last measurable snow in Tampa fell on January 19, 1977. The accumulation amounted to all of 0.2 inches, but the city, unprepared for and unaccustomed to wintry weather, came to a virtual standstill for a day. [27]

I remember being in LA in the 70's, in January.. and there was a rumour about that there had been frost on some roofs early that morning... was a bit shocking! :)
For those wanting to see snow on palms, it is more likely to happen in Vancouver... but these are the ultra hardy "Windmill Palms" that are from Nepal, and can withstand temperatures down to -18c. The palms in LA would die immediately, I think!

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/dawnd_01/Summer%20Part%20Two/vancsnowbyWestcoast604i.jpg

No they wouldnt die immediately, some of them would die but only the more tropical ones like king palms, royal palms and other stuff but there is an endless variety of palms in l.a. and a lot of them are very cold hardy.

Watch around -4:40

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I'm supposed to be doing homework so I don't have the sound on. LOL. Where is that located? Do they say in the video because I can't turn my sound on.

San Bernardino

After today's weather, i doubt we will have snow anytime soon.

It's gonna be like this for the week :(

I love the warm weather.

Check out Kid Frost's album :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/When_Hell.A._Freezes_Over.jpg

^^ That's gonna be one dead palm :)

1949 was the last time it snowed in considerable amounts in parts of Los Angeles. The Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory were covered with snow. It may happen again via freak weather conditions, but due to our urban heat island and the fact that Los Angeles is more paved now than in 1949, it's not that likely.

I found this one on Flickr...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/823998225_25237f4512_o.jpg

From Flickr, llatker (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10120350@N06/)

Yesterday [or today...] the mountains looked amazing. I was walking on Venice and the sky was clear and the mountains had so muich snow on them.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3198/snow2gc0.jpg

And here I tried zooming to the antenna field or farm or whatever:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8669/snowlx3.jpg

that's around here:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7414/snow3jj6.jpg

A few after last week's rains.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g189/FROMLOSANGELES/LAJAN08.jpg
By sb.pix

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g189/FROMLOSANGELES/LAJANO82.jpg
Laphoto1

so we DO have seasons :D

I could only imagine what it would be like if there was two feet of snow on Wilshire boulevard. Of course driving conditions would depend on what time of day it happens and how well Jillian Barberie forecasted it. But I usually tend to block out what Jilian Barberie is saying since I'm just fixated on her ass. But anyway back to the snow. If it happens unexpectedly in the middle of the day, then you'd probably see Wilshire traffic all backed up from downtown all the way to the Santa Monica due to the numerous collisions from people who can't drive in the snow.

you know how many dead homeless people we'll have if it snowed?

ahahahaha ^^

After it all melts they'll be haulin dead bodies out of macarthur park for days

I found this one on Flickr...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/823998225_25237f4512_o.jpg

From Flickr, llatker (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10120350@N06/)

Was everyone hiding in the air raid shelter?

From the Los Angeles Daily News website

Recalling a snowy L.A.
By Carol Bidwell, Columnist
Article Last Updated: 01/29/2008 10:07:36 PM PST


In case you haven't noticed, baby, it's cold outside.

That white stuff on the mountains is a product of one of the longest, coldest, stormiest stretches of weather the Southland has seen in a long time.

"The colder elevations - where it drops to 35 to 37 degrees - you need that as a temperature to turn rain into snow," said National Weather Service meteorologist Stuart Seto.

"On the beaches - they're mostly at low elevations - they get a lot of wind from the ocean, from the warmer ocean temperatures. That's why it snows in the mountains, but not in the valleys and not at the beaches.

"But that doesn't mean it never happens."

Which is why, when snow falls anywhere but the mountains, people run outside and try to catch the white flakes on their tongue. Many also grab cameras to record the unusual occurrence.

Historically, it's snowed at least a few flakes on the lowlands every 20 years or so.

The Los Angeles Almanac Web site lists 1922, 1935, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957 and 1962 as years when at least a trace of snow fell in downtown Los Angeles.

More recently, not-so-old-timers recall Southland snowfalls in 1979, 1989, 1991 and 2001; just enough fell to delight those who saw it before it melted.

"When it started snowing I was coming home from a movie" in Woodland Hills, said Mary Paterson, executive director for the Canoga Park Improvement Association, recalling the night of Feb. 8, 1989. "I got so excited, I made my boyfriend pull over and I called about three friends. They were all from the East Coast, and they said, `Why are you bothering me?' But it was amazing. The next day, there was a thin layer that stayed on the ground."

But the benchmark for Southland snow is January 1949. People went to bed Jan. 11 to the patter of raindrops on the roof - and awoke the next morning to find their yards blanketed with several inches of snow. The same thing happened the next night, and the next.

"It snowed for three days, with Woodland Hills suffering through this most extraordinary weather phenomenon," Gretchen Martin, field deputy to City Councilman Dennis Zine, wrote in a newsletter article that recalled that event.

"It snowed on and off, and temperatures dropped to the low 20s. It has snowed since then, but nothing compared to the snow of 1949."

Officially, downtown got 0.3 of an inch that day, but many San Fernando Valley families found 2 or 3 inches of snow on their lawns.

Check out museumsanfernandovalley.blogspot.com - the Web site of the San Fernando Valley Historical Society's museum in Canoga Park - for photos of a young boy with armfuls of snow taken during "the great snow of 1949."

"Children were kept home from school, and some were terrified by something they had never seen before," according to Gerald R. Fecht. On the Web site, he said his wife, Janne, had just arrived from Iowa with her parents when the storm hit.

"Awakening to the `snowstorm,' she was dressed in her Iowa snowsuit and sent off to school. When she arrived there, no more than a handful of other children were there. San Fernando Valley parents allowed their kids the day off, or were fearful."

At his own school, "the snowstorm had kept 90 percent of the children at their homes."

According to the collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia, because of the mountains surrounding it, "the Valley is more likely to get snow during winter months than the Los Angeles basin, although snow in San Fernando Valley is quite rare."

The last measurable accumulation of snow in the Valley was in 1989, while the last measurable snowfall in Los Angeles was in 1960. The heaviest snowfall recorded in downtown L.A. was 2 inches on Jan. 15, 1932.)

In 1949, though, snow was even reported in San Pedro, far from the mountains.

"We all ran out and tried to make snowmen," reported Al Bitonio, who was 10 at the time, in a local publication. "It didn't last very long. But we have a lovely picture of it."

Sam Domancich also wrote of his wonder at the sight: "I don't think any of us had ever seen snow before. White flakes began to swirl around us like tiny feathers being blown by the wind. We couldn't figure out what they were."

Downtown, "the snow had painted lawns and bushes white. Except for the lanes where car tires had caused the snow to melt, the streets, too, were white. Behind us, San Pedro Hill wore a blanket of snow. We had never seen scenery like this."

Julie Bartolotto, executive director of the Historical Society of Long Beach, said snow is rare, but not unheard of: "I've heard some people say it snowed here a couple of random times. There were flakes, but they didn't stick."

carol.bidwell@dailynews.com 818-713-3705

Guess there won't be snow in LA this winter...
but I have a good feeling about the next one >=]

I was watching "Crash" the other day and I was thinking, the only place you'd see it snowing in downtown LA is in the movies :lol:

Was everyone hiding in the air raid shelter?

Wow that was one "cool" historic photo!

It would be a trip if it snowed and the snow was part smog ashen grayish color. Yeow! :)