i never get to see snow in phoenix. Only lined palm trees and smog... yuck.

Dom, I think most of us have similar problems with our stories at one time or another...and all I have to say regarding that article...after having lived in the Phoenix area for nearly seven years...the folks out there have half-baked brains.

(almost kidding there Birds...)

i never get to see snow in phoenix. Only lined palm trees and smog... yuck.

Tucson doesn't even have the palm trees. Nice weather today, though.

i never get to see snow in phoenix. Only lined palm trees and smog... yuck.

Tucson doesn't even have the palm trees. Nice weather today, though.

I get the palm trees. And not much smog, because while we have the inversion layer like LA and San Jose we're open to the water and heavily stocked with trees (of all kinds). And, once in a while, snow, though it doesn't stick more than once in a generation. Ten miles away, at the summit of the mountains, it snows and sticks a couple of times a year.

If I want real snow: I can drive a few hours and be in the Sierras. But not until much later in the year.

Snow in September seems a little harsh . . . it's still summer here until the first real rainstorm just before Halloween, though it is cooling down.