Snow in Burbank California now that’s a hard thing to believe. As a fourth-Generation Californian snow to me is something you drive too. There is snow in southern California but it’s because there are 8 to 10 thousand feet high mountains. You see it on mountains, and you drive to it to play. When your young we would have 1 or 2 parents fill up the car and drive to the snow. There everyone would get out and have a great fun in the snow day.
Every Year the higher mountains get snowstorms and have skiing on them but there is rarely snow in Burbank. Every few years some of the lower mountains in the range North of Los Angeles get snow. Those are the great years because none of these mountains are wasted on that skiing thing. So, all along the road to the top cars park and kids get out and just snow play. For you easterners it may seem funny to drive just to snow play, but we have to drive to it.
Snow Episodes of Youth
I really only had two snow incidents when I was growing up. I did live in the highest altitude of the non mountains in LA. The only higher altitude would be in the Santa Monica Mountains which being closer to the Pacific Ocean keeps them warmer than the suburb of Chatsworth, the most northwestern end of the city.
Well one year in Elementary School we were having a Christmas party on the last day before Christmas Vacation. Then when I was walking to our car with my mom it started to snow. Of course, like most snow in my like when it hit the ground it melted. But it was as close to Christmas snow I ever had. Now as children we missed snow for Christmas, but we reveled in the fact that on Christmas day we could go out and play with any toy we wanted. It was sunny most every year with, only a couple of rainy days.
The other incident happened I was in Reno Neveda on business. I had moved to my parents for a few months to help my mother who had just had a terrible fall. And my dad, a Railroad Engineer, so out of town for work, asked to me to stay there to help my mom. So, the night it snowed and stayed on the ground all the next day at my mom’s house I missed it because I was in -18′ degree Reno. But later that week was the first time I had ever been a real snow storm Potato size flakes of dry snow and actually just floating down, it was great. I’ve been in the East on Business for a couple other storms since then.
Snowstorm in Burbank
Sitting around the home in Burbank as it was getting colder all morning. Now I grew up in Chatsworth and we would get ice every few years. But Burbank is a good 5+ degrees colder or hotter the Burbank, being a little higher and a few miles farther from the ocean. But a little later I heard some people outside and you could tell they were yelping it up over something. I went outside and was completely amazed, SNOW IN BURBANK. This was flakes, maybe not as big as Reno and a little wetter but actual snowflakes. Unbelievable. The news later said it was the first snow in Burbank since the fifties, 50 years earlier.
Well, I was figuring in a minute or two it would be rain. People were outside talking, and I was noticing the snow was starting to cover the ground and plants. Now nothing was going to get buried in the snow, but it was definitely putting down a shallow covering of snow. Yes! An actual COVERING of snow on the ground. All the neighbors were out or at the door just watching the stunning happening.
Around The Town
Well, you know we had to go see what the street and businesses looked like. When the Business Street, which in Burbank is like many other American towns more than most Los Angeles streets. We have the old highway running besides the FWY with businesses on the street. Almost like a business side road, although it is a city street.
Well as we went around it was just amazing. The business roofs were covered with Snow. Tire Tracks in the snow, incredible. The city park was one of the whitest spots in the town. There people all around just watching it snow. It seemed half the town was in the cold just wat planter and even had enough snow for footprint to be seen. This of, course was incredibly fun for us here in the West.
Golf Course in the Hills
Seeing the whole town and neighborhood covered with a shallow blanket of snow was just an amazing site. Then we took a drive up to the golf course. Now DeBell (Burbank’s Course Name) Golf is up into the foothills above Burbank. Of, course here in California these “foothills” are 3000+ high. The course is not the far up but it’s above the city. Up there we actually saw kids with toboggans actually sliding down the fairway.
When you got to the golf course you could see up the hills and they got some actual snow on them. They were covered through the next day. And one thing we get on those days they don’t get back east. You can see the mountains from everywhere in Los Angeles and it is an awesome sight when the 10,000 ft mountains are completely covered with snow.
Now it was time to get home because the Snow was beautiful but cold, high 30’s is horribly cold out here. But it was an incredible day and I never thought I would see my city with an actual shallow blanket of snow. Just a couple hours it was gone and it seemed like a dream and unreal. But we got the pictures to prove it happened. Thank you for sharing this page with us and come visit my sharing community’s site anytime. We have many products that could have been useful that day.