JamulBlog: Feb 27, 2011

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Snow in Lawson Valley!

Late last night we got something like an inch (2.5 cm) of snow. Wet, slushy, with hail mixed in – but recognizably snow. You can see on the rain chart at right the nearly vertical line from our intense rains Friday night, followed by the gentler bump – that's the snow melting in my rain gauge this morning (note the dates and times at right are GMT, not PST).

When we got up this morning, our yard was filled with sights the likes of which we haven't seen for something like 7 or 8 years (since the last “real” snowfall here). I ran out with my nice Canon camera to take photos, only to find out that I had a battery problem (or so I thought). So I took a bunch of crappy cellphone photos.

Later in the day I figured out that the real problem wasn't the battery at all: it was the danged charger! So I used the charger I have that runs in the car to charge my batteries, and for the rest of the day (up on Cuyamaca Mountain) I got to use my real camera. So here's your consolation prize: crappy cellphone photos of real snow in Lawson Valley!