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Danville and Alamo awakened to a cover of white this morning after about an inch of snow fell overnight in the Valley. By noon, snow was still standing in shady spots, Mount Diablo was covered down to its foothills, and the west hills were still sparsely coated.
Residents were in their front yards taking photos in the early morning, and children had snow fights before heading to school.
Danville resident James Spallas and his 7-year-old daughter Alexa headed to nearby Hap Magee Ranch Park to play in the snow and build a snowman.
“I went to grad school in upstate New York,” said Spallas, so he had some experience with the snow. This snow was better for building a snowman, he noted, because it was soft and could easily be rolled into a ball. “Back east where it’s colder the snow is too hard to roll,” he explained.
Tim Joyce was walking his golden retriever, Lucy.
“I wanted her to experience snow,” he said.
Lucy seemed to savor the experience, as she frolicked about.
Photographer Ike Kostal was one of several residents walking on the trail accessed from Round Hill North to capture Mount Diablo as the sun came out to create a glistening winter wonderland around 9:30 a.m. “I’ve never seen this much snow here,” he said.
One woman said she’d been out taking photos for two hours. “We should send these photos to Copenhagen,” she said, in reference to the international climate change conference that began in that city today.
Professional sports photographer Chris Scott, who was raised in Danville, said the last time the area received this much snow was the winter of 1968-69.
Weather forecast had shown rain all this week but it was amended to partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday with precipitation returning Thursday and Friday. There is a slight chance of snow showers early in the evening, with lows in the 20s to mid 30s.
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Great photos!!! can’t believe this is happening in our own backyard
This damn global warming is playing havoc with my fruit trees…
where can the Danville weather records be found. I remember a significant dusting of snow on the valley floor in 1973.
Re comment one, above — I didn’t know Golden Retrievers could type!
Good dog.
We had snow in Alamo a few years ago. Had a (relatively) heavy snow in Alamo back in the early ’80s – several inches. And we had snows in Alamo in the late ’70s. The only time I can’t remember snow sticking was in the ’90s.