It was Wednesday, under the sign of Sagittarius. The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic). In that special week of December people in US were listening to Daydream Believer by The Monkees. In UK Hello Goodbye by The Beatles was in the top 5 hits. Doctor Dolittle, directed by Richard Fleischer, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1967 while The Confessions Of Nat Turner by William Styron was one of the best selling books. And so? But the WEATHER!!

"This is something you tell to people who are from out of the area. They have a hard time believing it," said Ken Ayers, a county native who was a dazzled 7-year-old on that wondrous day.

"It's the California Christmas dream."

The dream came true 40 years ago this morning, when gale-force winds blew a Canadian cold front far, far off course. Across San Diego County, residents woke up to see the air shimmering with something cold, white and unfamiliar.

Bill Brick, then a seventh-grader at Oak Crest Junior High School in Encinitas, remembers looking out his bedroom window that morning. His initial reaction: "Huh?"

He had not seen snow before.

San Diego's coast has not seen significant snowfall since.""

Thus, the San Diego Tribune.

Your analysis of the San Diego anomaly is most inneresting. I wish you provided sources for these dogma of yours.