You could say it’s snow joke in Los Angeles County, and this time that terrible pun may hold up.
The weather is expected to be so wild in the next few days that yes, snow is on the radar in elevations much lower than usual.
It’s a rarity to get weather like this — in the land known for everlasting sunshine and balmy beach trips — but snow has happened before outside the mountains and foothills.
Let’s look at L.A.’s past run-ins with snowfall.
Notable winter slurries
Whenever snow falls close to our low-lying cities, it’s a big event. Even trace amounts capture our attention. But if you’re talking about a decent covering — a record snowfall — you have to go back a few decades, according to the L.A. Almanac and National Weather Service.
January 1949 was the primetime for snowfall. Pasadena got about 3 inches (3 inches!), and so did Van…
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