Snow in Atascadero, CA

Snow in Atascadero, CA

I got up this morning to pouring rain and below freezing temperatures. Wait! that can’t be, but it was. As I was making my coffee I noticed that the rain drops looked different, larger and whiter then normal. Wow! It’s snowing! It was wet snow but hey, it was snow. As I watched, camera in hand, it got whiter and lighter, less wet. Suddenly it was snowing, like Lake Tahoe snowing. Real snow flakes, like big white feathers floating from the sky and obscuring the countryside.

Last night the prediction was for snow down as low as 3500 feet, we’re 850 feet! Boy were they wrong.

I took picture after picture and put them all, good and bad, up on Flickr to share. Feel free to look.

It stopped snowing at about 10:00 AM and by 12 noon you would never have known about the snow. It was completely gone, not a trace. Just a few small patches in the surrounding mountains, even those were gone by 2:00 PM.

It was so beautiful, like a fairyland, I’m glad I thought to take pictures.