SoCal's (Crazy?) Weather

Music Theme: "Storm Front" from Billy Joel's "Storm Front" album

Holy fill-in-the-blank, Batman!

Well, today my parents came up to school at about Noon to give me back my van (it had been in the shop), and also to take me out to lunch. We went to a restaurant called Millie's, which has a diverse menu of excellent food. Anyways, on the way there it started raining and it seemed like it was hailing as well. But the "hail" was small and sof and broke upon contact with the windshield. My mom pointed out that it was snow. I thought, No, it couldn't be. We talked about for a few moments and concluded that it was freezing rain, or sleet. I think it was sleet. The closest thing to snow.

OH. MY. GOSH. SLEET! THE NEXT CLOSEST THING TO SNOW!

Now, for those of you that don't know or have an ideal of what SoCal weather should be like, it isn't what you think it is. It can be quite... wierd. It's not sunny and clear all year. For a better part of the year, it is, but we can get rain (which turns drivers on the freeways into maniacs moreso than usual) hot and dry desert winds (aka "Santa Anas", which mess with one's allergies, ugh), and cold overcast stuff that won't give you a single drop of rain, even when you need it. Still, it does not snow often in the lower elevations of SoCal; in fact it's quite rare, so even when we get something close, like hail or sleet, it's a miracle, or darn near so.

The whole sleet fall took about 10 minutes and wasn't much, but it was fun to watch, and if the sun hadn't come out, we could've played in it. It's all a part of an Alaskan front moving through, which means its quite cold and rainy. I like the cold. Praise God for all sorts of weather!