It isn't often that I get to write about snow. Living in southern Arizona doesn't usually give you a reason to, and if I were to live in some place like Montana or Wyoming I probably still wouldn't write about snow as that it would be a much more frequent occurrence there.
But, yes, it did snow today in Tucson. It was coming down at where I work shortly after noon. We see hail here maybe two or three times a year, but snow is much less frequent.
I think this might be only the third time I've seen it here. Maybe the fourth.
In 1999, it snowed here on Easter Sunday. In January 2007, we got some snow. And then today.
I've seen it plenty of times at the higher elevations. We're surrounded by mountains here, and a few times each winter we have snow-capped peaks. It's a beautiful sight. And it doesn't seem to stay very long either.
As for today, I don't understand the weather. Just last week we were in the lower 80s in the afternoon, and yesterday morning it was downright cold and nasty and it was that way this morning too.
I'll have to check, but I think tomorrow is the first day of spring. We either start getting our springlike weather in early March, or we transition from winter directly into summer.
I guess this year we had to have one last hurrah.
