BS: a Tucson snow day

Subject: BS: a Tucson snow day
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:06 PM

This link won't last more than a week (or at least won't link to the same image for more than a week, but... U of Arizona webcam.

I dropped my son off at school, and fortunately had to return later and discovered the empty parking lot -- he'd walked back home. It's not that the streets weren't plowed ;-) but the nearby bridges over the Rillito get icy.

The airport was closed last night.

All in all, more wintry than when I visited New England a week ago!

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: a Tucson snow day
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 02:38 PM

If you go to the Recent Images in that link, click on today, and go to the shot of 8 or 9am there is a dusting of snow on those buildings! It's already disappearing by 10am.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: a Tucson snow day
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 03:44 PM

Snow sitting on the palm fronds in the shade of our building lasted past noon.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: a Tucson snow day
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 03:46 PM

This page gives you time-lapse movies, but you have to wait 'til Tuesday to look at today's.

Subject: RE: BS: a Tucson snow day
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 01:54 PM

here are the snow-on-cactus pictures that perhaps are more impressive than snow on mountains and rooftops.

If you have a high-speed connection, the time-lapse pic of yesterday is neat -- watching the snow move back up the mountain.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: a Tucson snow day
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Jan 07 - 06:17 PM

Have fun, Becky. We had 16 inches about 10 days ago.

Subject: RE: BS: a Tucson snow day
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 12:22 AM

gorgeous! Thanks! I've seen snow out there, years ago when I worked one winter at Organ Pipe Cactus. But you don't want to blink much or you'll miss it.