On Zach's birthday I was looking at the weather report for the next week and they had rain/snow on the forecast. I shared it on Facebook with a sarcastic comment about global warming and it's like The Weather Channel was watching me and changed the forecast. For the next week they claimed it was going to get into the low 30s yet be raining. I wasn't buying it.
I was taking all kinds of preparations. Buying more lights, more blankets from Goodwill, and getting all my sensitive plants covered up. People probably thought I was crazy, actually some told me I am, but I knew what was coming and I wasn't going to have plants die on my watch. On the February 21st we got it all. First it started raining a mix of rain and sleet. Then the thunderstorms started. Yes, cold thunderstorms. Mid-afternoon it started hailing really hard. By sunset it was dropping down into the 30's and both The Weather Channel and Accuweather decided that it was in fact going to snow.
I stayed up as late as I could, watching the radar, waiting for snow. Thursday nights I'm pretty tired though so I crashed out around 10:30, with my curtains open. I woke up ten minutes before midnight and it was snowing. Not only was it snowing but it was the heaviest snowfall I had ever seen. I was surprised that Natalie was sitting there in bed and hadn't noticed it had been snowing for at least 30-45 minutes. Yes it was late, and a school night, but it didn't matter. It was snowing, at our house. Natalie woke up Adri while I ran out on the balcony in shorts and a tank top. I wasn't wasting time looking for a sweater.
I stayed up for 2 hours playing in the snow and even decided to jump on the trampoline. I tried to go back to bed but I was like a kid on Christmas. I laid in bed all night with the curtains open watching the snow come down. Had it been just 2-3 colder we would have had 6 inches of snow on the ground that night. I know this because 500 feet higher up they had six inches. We had 5-6 hours of snow but it only stuck on the ground half that time or we would get some brief rain that would melt the snow that fell prior. Either way it was really cool watching it come down all night. I love the rain but the snow is so much more peaceful. It was dead quite that night, with the exception of us playing outside.
The rest of Phoenix did not get snow. No, they got really severe thunderstorms all night and flash floods. It's rare that a thunderstorm sticks around that long but they got a couple inches of rain over night.
More about the next couple days in my next posts.
Our mid-day hail storm. My plants weren't too happy about this. Most of them were not covered yet and the leaves got ripped up.
A couple minutes before midnight on February 21st.
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