[pct-l] Damn So Cal Weather

[rogers at isi.edu (Craig Milo Rogers)]

On 06.01.09, Eckert wrote:
> I was speaking with a clerk at the San Diego REI on Sunday.  He was back 
> from skiing in Mammoth.  Said that when he drove north, there was snow 
> on the ground in Big Pine.
> So much for sunny Southern California. <g>

	While Lone Pine is sometimes listed as part of Southern
California, the general consensus is that the northern boundary of
Southern California is a line running through the Tehachapi Mountains.
Big Pine, indeed the entire Owens Valley, is usually considered part
of Northern California, it being understood that Central California
ends somewhere in the Sierra Nevada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California

	I/ve been spending most of my weekends in Keeler, just east of
Lone Pine.  This last weekend there was a lot of snow visible on the
southern Sierra Nevada, although not so much as this time last year, I
think.  There was patchy snow on Cerro Gordo in the southern end of
the Inyo Mountains on the east side of the Owens Valley.  I believe I
saw snow on the high points of the Argus and Coso Ranges as well.
Temperatures are below freezing some nights.

					Craig "Computer" Rogers