Record amounts of snowfall fell across the state this weekend, especially over here in Southern California where snow reached elevations as low as a thousand feet in the San Gabriel Mountains.
“We had some snow totals as high as 93 inches at Mountain High, it’s 7,000 feet, tt’s a ski resort area.” said Dave Bruno , a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “A lot of places above 6,000 feet had three to six feet of snow. Again, this is fairly unusual to get such high snow amounts down here.”
So what, exactly does that look like?
NASA’s Earth Observatory released images Monday taken from a satellite showing conditions in Southern California on Feb 10 and Feb 26. And well…
The aftermath
While some have delighted in so much snow, it hasn’t all been fun.
Lake Arrowhead saw more than 7 feet of snow, stranding in residents and visitors, including schoolchildren from Irvine away at camp.
“We’ve had enough snowfall that even finding street markers has been difficult in some of…
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