Snow in Phoenix

As I walked down to my favorite watering hole to watch the Colts-New England game I noticed that there wasn't a cloud in the sky.  The temp at the house when I left was about 50 but felt colder.  We sat out on the patio, as the stinky people get to smoke their cigarettes and cigars indoors until May 1, when we superior, somewhat less stinky people re-take the indoors.

Anyhow, it was cold.  We fired up two of the overhead heaters and had them hitting us in stereo.  We were carefully situated where we could watch two tv's because halfway through the football game the Suns game started and they're on a twelve game winning streak. 

All of a sudden it looked like a scene out of War of the Worlds.  Roiling boiling churning black clouds that looked like they were no higher than a couple hundred feet.  The wind died, then came up strong out of the northwest, and then the rain, and then, I'll-be-go-to-hell SNOW!!  It didn't stick where we were, didn't last long, but it was the real stuff.

Naturally, today's morning paper led off with two inch headlines "Snow In The Valley" with the standard pictures of snow on saguaros, kids gamboling, and in important update.  This recent spate of crystallized aqua brings Phoenix's cumulative total of snowfall to 3.70"

 

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