Winter Wonderland???

It's been pretty cold here in Vegas recently.  Not, like, North Dakota cold or anything, but pretty darn cold.

How cold?

This is the vision that greeted me this morning out of my bedroom window (click the thumbnail for full view):

This makes the third time in my life that I've experienced snow in Vegas.  The first time, more than 10 years ago, I thought it was a dust storm at first, because the snow was very dry and grainy.  There was no accumulation.

The second time, it was near-blizzard conditions, visibility was down to about 10-15 feet.  So it wasn't quite as scenic.

This is kind of nice.  It looks like the roads are perfectly clear, but the dusting of snow on everything adds a nice holiday touch.  Really, how often in your life do you get to see snow-covered palm trees?

Of course, the drivers here in Vegas are idiots.  I mean, IDIOTS.  A little bit of rain will cause accidents everywhere.  So even though it does look like the roads are fine, I expect a longer-than-usual drive to work this morning... we'll see.

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[phriedom]

I'll have to snap some pictures of here in Beaverton/Hillsboro tomorrow morning if it does the same thing it has done that last two days. We have had freezing temperatures and ground level clouds (like fog) and we have gotten very thick frost on everything. You see it particularly next to open fields where fog usually is the thickest, such as right next to my house. And at work we not only are next to open fields, but there is an Intel chip fab across the street and up-wind which has a cooling tower that emits steam clouds, which I suspect is a factor in the strange, quarter-inch thick frost growth on everything. It is bizarre. It looks like snow, and yet not because it forms there instead of falling there, so each blade of grass or each tiny branch has it's own even coating.