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Prescott, Arizona is 1,500 meters above sea level and our first snowfall of the year occurred on 20 Feb 2026.  Fortunately, next week, the daytime high temperatures will be above 20 degrees Celsius.

Fortunately, the "storm" had enough moisture to bless those of us near Durango, CO with about 15cm (and quite a bit more in the high country).  The first time all season I have plowed snow.  I'm watching east coast weather this morning with envy!

It is strange to hear about snow in somewhere like Arizona. :-)

I have always thought of arizona, and areas around, as desert land, with cactus and rolling tumble weeds, as seen in cowboy films. :-)

Regards
Les

Once I flew into Dallas Fort Worth and it had recently snowed. They didn't know what to do!

John

Quote from: John Lawton on Feb 23, 2026, 04:47 PMOnce I flew into Dallas Fort Worth and it had recently snowed. They didn't know what to do!

John

Sure they did John.  They put warm clothes on.
Although... from Americans you can expect the opposite,
like Trumpet not going to war, and make America great again.
Nothing is as they say, or not.

Maybe you are right, they didn't know what to do.

They has hard packed snow and it looked like all they had put onto it was sand as I assume they didn't have rock salt. Needless to say vehicles were all over the place.

John

No wonder... they drive on the wrong side of the road, use 110V for mains power, and they use a fractional system of measurement, inherited from the imperial English in the early 1800's.  The rest of the world has since moved on, not much, just a little.
Why on earth would they be capable drivers 

And from what I gather the Canadians are even more confused... 

For instance, there is a forever need for more accurate measurements.
This is where the Angstrom comes in.  Already used in nano technology for making micro's.

Unit of length; equals 0.1 nanometre

The angstrom is a unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.

How would you pronounce this with the imperial system 

"Teeny-weeny"

Now Charlie, with language like that, it sounds like you're back in the snow...