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Earlier this month, Seattle grabbed the snowflake headlines. Then Maui got a taste of non-tropical winter. This week, Las Vegas hopped into the act, followed by Los Angeles and Phoenix. And on Friday, it was Tucson, Ariz.’s turn to make snowmen.
Parts of the Western U.S. unaccustomed to getting snow have been getting it this month — and getting it good.
Wednesday it snowed in Las Vegas, Thursday it snowed in Los Angeles and today it's snowing in #Tucson! This is the 1st time they've had measurable #snow twice in the same season (January 1st: 0.4") in 18 years. H/T @gdimeweather
cam: https://t.co/ibyLyoFUpr #tucsonsnow pic.twitter.com/ey7S3awrZj— Mike Seidel (@mikeseidel) February 22, 2019
People, of course, are talking. People are also shooting lots and lots of videos of the white stuff descending upon them and their normally sun-baked, rain-drenched or star-obsessed towns. A winter storm brought rare snowfall to the Las Vegas Strip this week, while some foothills in the suburbs reported several inches of snow. The storm messed up flights at the airport and snarled traffic on Vegas’ highways and forecasters said it could snow as much as three inches by Friday on the western and southern flanks of Sin City.
You can almost hear the cameras whirring away, from Pike Place Market to Hawaii volcanoes to Hollywood to the Vegas Strip and Arizona’s saguaro-studded landscape.