![]() ![]() With the Sierra Nevada snowpack already deeper than it’s been in a couple of years, ski areas were expected to get as much as 22 inches of fresh powder overnight Thursday. “We’ve been waiting for it, and we’re not driving anywhere today, so it’s really kind of nice.” She and her husband, Pat, were driving to San Bruno to be with family on Friday, so their devil-may-care attitude about the rain extended only so far. ![]() “We’re happy to have rain,” said Terry Walsh, as she shopped for some stocking stuffers at a big box store in Santa Clara. “But even if we can’t see it,” Null said, “this is the first time that I can remember - and I’ve been doing this over 40 years - that we’ve had even a chance of snow on the mountains on Christmas Eve. There’s just one problem with this singalong scenario: the clouds that drop the snow above 3,000 feet on Mount Hamilton and Mount Diablo may stick around Christmas morning and obscure any view of the fresh powder. “There’s going to be more cold air and more showers.” “All the conditions are in place,” meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services said Thursday. Yet in the Bay Area, no one born since before the San Francisco 49ers won their first Super Bowl in 1982 - since Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the Thrilla in Manila in 1975 - has seen snow on the local mountaintops on Christmas morning. But try telling that to the songwriters who mention the white stuff in practically every yuletide yodel ever written. And as we all know, the runners on Santa’s sleigh are built for jet propulsion, not sliding through the snow. If you take the Gospel as gospel, there was no snow outside the original Nativity scene that gave Christmas its start. ![]()
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