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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
and now for a splash of color. (and a dash of mystery)
"1951 LOS ANGELES TUNNEL COAST HIGHWAY CA AMATEUR COLOR SLIDE PHOTO CAR"
EBAY
I wonder if the amateur photographer took this because of the remnants of snow* in the shadow of the mountain (I think that's snow) or because of the remarkable tunnel.
*I've gone back and forth on whether or not that is snow. I decided it was snow when I noticed the dusting on the bricks/stone of the tunnel entrance.
And by living in the midwest I know that snow will last two or three days longer if it's in continual shadow (or even longer if it's real cold!)
Does anyone know which tunnel this is?
...and I'm curious, how many think this is snow?
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I'm not exactly sure where the location of the above photo is specifically, so I'm not sure that is snow pictured...we also have to be wary of dates supplied by 3rd parties.
I tried to keep a source listing for snow dates in Los Angeles and environs, but I keep finding anomalies here and there.
Since official records were first kept in 1877, the downtown Los Angeles weather station observed measurable snowfall three times:
Downtown Los Angeles weather station
RECORDED SNOWFALL:
1882
1932
1949
News reports recorded snowfall elsewhere in the Los Angeles Basin:
1913
1921
1922
1926
1944
1957
1962
And from a source:
Snowfall at higher elevations and in inland valleys is more common; a
1989
system dropped several inches on the San Fernando Valley but missed the coastal plain, and a
2007
storm dusted the canyons above Malibu with powder and dropped hail-like graupel on L.A.'s Westside.
A search for photos on NLA concerning snow have some dated
1923 (Hollywood & Vine)
1948 (from Universal Studios to across the valley)
1953 (San Bernardino)
HossC posted
HERE some snow photos dated:
1912
1930
and included links to a post from
G-W to a photo of snow in Silverlake dated
1950
And from the L.A. Almanac which began in 1921 I posted this once:
Quote:
http://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we17.htm
Under "Snow in Los Angeles County" it has this item:
Since records were first kept in 1921, snow has fallen on downtown Los Angeles only ten times.
The information is from the National Weather Service and lists these dates:
Year Month & Amount of Snowfall
1922 January (trace), March (trace)
1935 December (trace)
1947 December (trace)
1949 January (slightly more than 0.3 inches)
1950 April (0.2 inches)
1951 February (trace), March (trace)
1952 January (trace), March (trace), December (trace)
1954 January (0.3 inches), February (trace)
1957 January (trace)
1962 January (trace)
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A revisit to that link right now has updates which include:
Latest Incidents of Snowfall Los Angeles International Airport, Downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach
1991
Los Angeles Intl. Airport trace (less than 0.5 inches) March 27, 1991
1996
Long Beach Airport trace (less than 0.5 inches) February 25, 1996
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If you put all these dates together from sources and captions of snowfall in the L.A. area, we get:
1882
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1912, 1913
1921, 1922, 1923, 1926
1930, 1932, 1935
1944, 1947, 1948, 1949
1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957
1962
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1989
1991, 1996
2007
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