WOW! White stuff falling from the sky in Phoenix tonight.

[lonestarnot]

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[in_cog_ni_to]

1. It's hard to see. Is it SNOWING in Phoenix??? n/t

[lonestarnot]

3. Cross between snowflakes, and frozen rain balls, not hail because it

was too light weight, kind of like bushitler.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. unfreakin' believable! Snow/sleet in Phoenix.

:crazy:

[barb162]

26. I'm glad some other areas are getting it

especially some really dry areas like the Southwest

[in_cog_ni_to]

57. I woke up this morning to 4 inches of snow. I started my day with shoveling snow at 7:00 A.M.

Did you get dumped on too?

[TahitiNut]

39. (grin) It's called 'sleet'

It's heartening that there are people who haven't had as much of that crap those of us who have and know all the names (including 4-letter ones) for it.

:rofl: :rofl:

[lonestarnot]

44. Is sleet kind of hard?

[TahitiNut]

56. Yes, usually. It's snow that melted and refroze while falling.

It's often 'crunchy' - like micro-crushed-ice. Sometimes it doesn't quite refreeze hard (or melts after freezing) so it feels like a grain of ice inside a very cold raindrop.. For comparison, hail is rain that freezes. Given the low humidity, just the evaporation from the surface of the melting snow could be enough to refreeze it. Since the temperature is hovering right around 32-33 down there, that's probably part of how it's happening.

[mmonk]

2. Wow. Interesting.

Snow fell here last week (Raleigh) but I didn't know it snows in Phoenix. I always think of high temps for you there.

[lonestarnot]

5. See Crowley's post here. Global warming occurring much faster than first expected.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3172954

[mmonk]

20. Thanks

[GreenPoet64]

4. It snowed here . . .

in the Inland Empire in Southern California last week. I don't own a scraper and didn't know how I was going to get the ice off of my windshield. I ended up using warm water. My coworker used a credit card.

[lonestarnot]

6. Freaky isn't it.

[havocmom]

7. Daughter in Tucson says patio covered

After a hard rain, snow. Glad I'm not driving THERE tomorrow.

[lonestarnot]

8. It snows on Mt. Lemon in near Tucson, but it is just as wierd to have

snow on her patio in Tucson as it is here in Phoenix. I'm also in the city, not an outlying area.

[havocmom]

31. She is in central Tucson

I saw 5 inches of snow one Christmas eve there, Magic!

[Straight Shooter]

9. Beautiful chaise lounge.

I just had to tell you that. :)

[lonestarnot]

11. WOW again. Thanks. It's very old like me. The doggie sun chair.

BUT, Not today!

[seabeyond]

10. coolest. isnt that so much fun. wow. amarillo, yesterday

but then it isnt unusual for it to snow here. still like the picture, son taking out trash. el paso had some snow this year too.

[lonestarnot]

12. Beautiful! I love the quiet in snowy places. And I love boys who take out the trash!

I have to plead with my son to do that.

[praeclarus]

14. snow in the desert...

... weird storms in Europe, no snow in Northeast,
record heat 5 or 6 years running.

It's all pretty normal and been this way since
humans and dinosaurs romped together a couple
thousand years ago.

[lonestarnot]

18. You sound as though you believe this to be a regular occurrence.

[praeclarus]

25. i reckon i should have added on of these....

:wtf:

No, I don't think it happens all the time and
neither do I think the world was created a couple
thousand years ago.

[lonestarnot]

27. That clears things up.

Thanks.

[originalpckelly]

15. Ouch, somewhere a bunch of white guys are missing something.

:scared:

Wonder how it happened.

[lonestarnot]

19. OMG

:rofl:

[originalpckelly]

32. We may have to start buying armor plated cups.

[lonestarnot]

41. Eeeek.

They would be cold!

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. LOL beat this baby!

My driveway last night.

[lonestarnot]

21. Sheesh, makes me cold to look.

Hope you have mufflers and ear muffs. I feel terrible for the homeless. A lady froze to death here this week.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. Earmuffs, a hat and 2 pairs of gloves

plus 2 coats.

Winter sucks! Yes it can be pretty but it is a friggin mess and being cold is the pits.

[lonestarnot]

40. I bought this little round heater at Costco. Doesn't run up the electric bill.

It has a coil in the center and radiates some nice heat. $60 last year. Turns off when it tumps over. You might want to look at them. My hounddogs love it!

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. Actually our utility bills are higher in the summer

when we have to run the A/C. We are lucky here. Our gas bills in the winter aren't too bad.

[lonestarnot]

49. Mine is going to be a doozie this month as I have no blood from

living all these years in the valley.

[blondeatlast]

22. My poor son is going nuts hoping for it in our hood.

I'm afraid it isn't happening here. BIL has a home in far N. Scottsdale and got a lovely blanket there. I think I'll take the little guy up north sometime soon. I was raised in Colorado and Montana so I happen to love the stuff!

[ChazII]

29. Family in south Scottsdale

reported only rain.

[lonestarnot]

30. Hey blondatlast!

:hi: :hug: My son was all excited. He even ran outside to pick some up and ran in to show me with a disappointinly empty hand as it had melted before he got back in the house with it. I just don't like driving in it to get there. Desert dwellers are scary in the snow.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. I hate it

It's pretty for about 5 minutes. Then you have to go out in it. Blah!

[lonestarnot]

50. I don't think I would want to live in it. Hmm mmm nope.

I hate to be cold.

[VTMechEngr]

17. I have yet to see white stuff fall from the sky this year

And that wouldn't be so bad if I didn't live in Connecticut!

[lonestarnot]

23. I thought it was snowing there today? No?

[VTMechEngr]

34. Nope

not a single snowflake

[lonestarnot]

36. Very strange indeed. Whackiness in global warming.

[VTMechEngr]

38. Two weeks ago, the trees were sending out buds.

Really freaky. I'm over on the quiet half of the state (near RI).

[lonestarnot]

52. I read here about cherry trees already blooming in some places.

[barb162]

24. wow, that's a real blizzard in that grass

[lonestarnot]

28. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

35. Hey -- is that burger place still there? The one where you drive 'way up

into the hills and it's private property and they have guys that tell you where to park?

They have GREAT hamburgers and open fires and some guys doing live music?

[lonestarnot]

46. You mean Pinnacle Peak?

[EFerrari]

48. I don't remember their dingdang name. But they had a great black and white

postcard that I kept for years. Oh, and in the main room of the "restaurant", the ceiling is papered with dollar bills. This was not a commercial type place but run by a private family. I think I was there in 1998.

Is this ringing a bell or are all the bells frozen over? :)

[lonestarnot]

51. Yes, it is still there. I met one of the senior chefs. Food still good too.

[EFerrari]

53. That was the best burger in the whole world. And the security guys

are really scary. lol

[lonestarnot]

54. I didn't pay much attention to security guys. When I'm hungry, just

stand back! mmmmm mmmm mmmmm.

[Wiley50]

43. Frozen Rain Balls Keep Fallin On My Head n/t

[lonestarnot]

45. OMG

You just made my fucking night! :rofl: :applause:

[Wiley50]

58. Better Than "Purity Balls" Oh Wait That was another Thread n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

47. 2 -3 Inches so far in Tucson NE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6089911&mesg_id=6089911

[lonestarnot]

55. Those were some pictures over at that link. Fiction. And stranger than.