Oh my fvcking gawd!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But it was highly unusual. As is the week-of-winter, week-of-summer pattern we've been having lately.

See, that's my favorite. How cold it's getting is definitely on the short end of the bell curve, but the cold-warm-cold-warm oscillation happens every single year in SoCal. Every year. And has been happening every year for quite a while every January. What's amusing to me is the people who love to tell the, "It was cold and rainy and windy and horrible weather right up until the day of the Rose Parade when it was suddenly sunny and warm," anecdotes, and then seem to immediately forget those over the next two months and live in shock over that exact same weather pattern playing out like it always does.

Yes, snow in Westwood is highly unusual. Just as snow in Canoga Park was highly unusual in 1989. It's a statistical anomaly and 2 instances of light snow in 20 years are evidence of absolutely nothing on the scale of global climate change.

Heck, maybe it's a good sign, seeing as over the previous 40 years there has been no snowfall at the LA Civic Center, whereas during the previous 40 years there were at least trace amounts on average every 4.5 years or so. (source). So this single, statistically insignificant snow event is just as plausibly evidence of things returning to normal as it is of things going to hell.