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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck
At first I mistook the snow for sand, something reminiscent of Manhattan Beaches' sand dunes (bottom) or somewhere in the desert. But the'32 date as the first recorded snowfall - throws me. No doubt '32 was a memorable winter, but pictures of Chaplin Studio's snow-covered frontage are dated '21, preceding the "first" allegedly recorded snowfall by 12 years. One might expect that snow on La Brea probably meant a few flakes nearby Hollywood? The LATimes reported that on January 15, 1932 downtown received 2" snowfall for the first time in 50 years. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar...surroundings10
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I love the Los Angeles "snow pictures" Chuckaluck and E_R!
The 1932 date IS puzzling. I looked up this site:
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)
It curiously doesn't even list 1932--?
It also says: "...on January 17, 2007, an extremely rare light dusting of snow fell in the Malibu area and in West Los Angeles", but I guess that doesn't rate a mention in the statistics...so I am confused.
I had seen some great photos of the snow in 1949, but all I could find at the moment was this newspaper headline:
http://www.awalkerinla.com/LAT
One of those article headlines states there's snow in Catalina!
If anyone finds any L.A. snow pictures (or Catalina!) and loves them as much as I do, please post!