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Low-elevation snow in California has always been a rare sight, but not impossible.
In 1989, the last and only other time a blizzard warning was issued for the L.A. area, up to 5 inches of snow fell in parts of the San Fernando and Simi valleys. The last time downtown Los Angeles saw more than tiny amounts of snow was on Jan. 15, 1932, when the weather service recorded 2 inches there.In the 20th century, air masses that would sometimes bring significant amounts of snow to Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles were both colder and drier than the current pattern.
“If this air mass near the surface was a degree or two colder, that’s all it would have taken to produce snow in downtown Sacramento and downtown San Francisco, and maybe even Los Angeles. But it’s not.” This air mass is about 2 or 3 degrees too warm to dust Southern California’s sandy beaches with snow. “And that’s about how much California has warmed since the last time there was widespread sea level snow in California.
“It really has become just extremely difficult to see that pattern,” Swain said. “I’ll never say never, but the odds are certainly lower today than they used to be and they were already quite low to begin with.”More coverage
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