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This Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, 2019 was a little different in the High Desert of Southern California where I live! I woke up to a lawn and yard covered in that white stuff - SNOW!!!
Actually, I was thrilled!
We need precipitation in Southern California - the forecast was for rain, but I had heard on the news Tuesday night that the snow level could drop to the 2000 foot level in Southern California -- and according to the NOAA, where I live in Quartz Hill is at the Elevation of 2513 ft.! ~~~ I figure that if we are getting this much snow, that the San Gabriel Mountains and the San Bernadino Mountains of Southern California will have 1-2 feet of snow -- and snowpack this winter --- and also that the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, which is a major indicator for the whole state of California will have some feet of snow -- and good snowpack for this winter, which makes me shout WooHoo!!!
It is about 8 PM -- and my yard is still white - covered with snow - and can't but wonder how long it will last. The NOAA forecast for my location tonight is for a low of 32 - with Wind Chill Factor Factors at 20 - so I expect I will wake up to some snow Friday Morning with the Wind Chill Factor below freezing until 11AM or Noon - but with a high of 44, it may all be melted by Friday afternoon.
Decided I had to take some pictures of my yard - front and back - so, here they are!
This is my Back Yard today -- Behind my building where I live is a little Urban Forest that I love!
-- And I took a closeup of the tree in the right of the above photo to clearly show the snow on the branches:
My building (not the one showing in the photo - it is the building to the right) has an Apple Tree (where I picked Apples this late Summer/Fall) - and here it is covered with Snow!!!
And here is the Pine Tree right in front of my apartment - with snow on it:
And -- it snowed on my Rosemary Plant in my little container garden in my assigned Flower bed outside my apartment!!! Got this photo, but it is a little blurry -- I did not want to go out waking in the snow, so I took the picture through my apartment window (the grid showing over the photo I think is the window glass registering on my photo). I think the snow is very good for it, as it is an Evergreen Leaf Plant -- and it is a Mediterranean climate plant - and that climate has wet winters - so this snow is good for the ecosystem I live in - including for the Biodiversity here!!! (Forests here in California are in the California Floristic Province, a Biodiversity Hotspot !)
So, I am very Happy this Thanksgiving - I'm enjoying staying home and watching the snow - and snow fall outside my apartment!!!
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