SFist: It Snowed in San Francisco!

kskiska

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:59:01 -0800

I'm from Chicago and peeps, that is not snow.

shazwozzle

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:54:25 -0800

Whatever this was, it is now no longer snow or hail. It is the lovely substance known as "slush."

Belgand

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:25:09 -0800

I'm from a state that used to get snow and that certainly looks like snow to me. Regardless of what it is it looks like absolute horror to me. I moved here to get away from snow and homophobic bigots. Fail on both counts so far this year.

Falcon

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:28:03 -0800

Wow, some people are from states where it really snows and us flaky Californians think that hail is snow. Here's my advice: go back. You can see the real snow up close and personal and leave our job market.

Greg

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:21 -0800

it DID once snow in the Bay Area...I remember it, it was when I was 4 years old and it was not hail, it was in fact snow...but it melted within an hour of landing...

zstone

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:20:00 -0800

Cold to the touch, maybe, but white and fluffy? Not particularly.

denise

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:13:56 -0800

That's left-over hail, not snow, sorry..... (I spent my teenage years shoveling the stuff, so, I know snow when I see it.)

Generic

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:05:54 -0800

Hail is hard and pellet-like and kills small birds and looks like God's Wrath on the homeless. Snow is flakey and soft-ish and reminds everyone of Bing Crosby and those cute animals that Sarah Palin kills. How could these two things be confused?

craeg

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:03:54 -0800

I have a weather station, and it hasnt gone below 44 in russian hill yet this year.

lola la trailera

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:41:31 -0800

hail indeed, but 50° was not. It was 38° when the hail was rocking sunday nite. 42° when it hailed last nite again + Iwas @TIsland.

icbalaam

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:36:51 -0800

Hell that's hail.

doesntmatter

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:33:51 -0800

woohoo! I too am a convent grad! (high school though)

katerose26

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:28:17 -0800

Hey Wiyum, me too! CSH '92, woohoo!

katerose26

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:27:06 -0800

Craeg- Stop raining on our parade! It's snow dammit!

withak

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:09:30 -0800

I'm from Illinois and that is definitely not snow.

masterdave

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:29:34 -0800

Looks like someone threw a sno-cone on the street. It ain't real snow until everyone needs a shovel.

Brock Keeling

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:20:51 -0800

i hereby declare it to be snow. california snow, that is.

craeg

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:19:12 -0800

honestly this is a huge pet peeve of mine. THIS IS HAIL! It does not snow when the temp is 50 degrees. Hail can accumulate just like snow - and can look like snow if you have never actually seen what snow looks like. It has been hailing a lot last few days but HAIL IS NOT SNOW. Notice how it collects around storm drains and edges of things? Thats because water carries the hail

wiyum

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:00:12 -0800

awww. broadway and fillmore. that's the corner of my elementary school.

aj

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:54:38 -0800

Sleet I thought.

bottombracket

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:45:57 -0800

the snow storm on Mt. Diablo was pretty awesome yesterday.

feedthebirds

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:39:35 -0800

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sf_bikebike

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:19 -0800

Poor homeless dudes.

manys

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:14:58 -0800

Santarchy detritus.

inkling23

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:59:02 -0800

we got a hailstorm in the mish. like the sky was a giant crushed ice dispenser...

seandub

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:20 -0800

Hail.