Does it Snow in El Paso? (Post, West: car rental, gym, swimming)

[holmes]

Hehe, I hear you about people driving crazy when there's bad weather out. I moved from chicago 2 yrs ago where people deal with it all the time. Around here, if it's not sunny out you're almost guaranteed to see wrecked cars on the side of the road.

[krbr1978]

Originally Posted by eplifestyle

Yeah, El Paso averages less than 10 inches of any kind of precipitation per year (2006 was a rare exception), so snow is only an occasional thing. It gets cold enough, but there just isn't enough water in the dry desert air.

It's nice to look at when it does happen, though.

-eplifestyle

When we lived in El Paso last year, it snowed around the Thanksgiving Holliday. The snow stuck around for about 2 days. These are the pix.

[Muhnay]

Issued by The National Weather Service
El Paso, TX
3:45 pm MST, Wed., Dec. 24, 2008

... A COUPLE OF WINTER STORMS ON SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...

A SMALL STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE BORDERLAND THURSDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS WILL MOVE IN WITH THIS AND COULD PRODUCE SOME SNOW OVER HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE GILA WILDERNESS.

A SECOND MORE POWERFUL STORM WILL MOVE TO THE AREA FRIDAY. MORE SNOW SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE GILA WILDERNESS AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS. COLD AIR MOVING IN WILL DROP SNOW LEVELS DOWN TO AROUND 4500 FEET BY LATE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL ALSO BE A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON... WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH.

PEOPLE ARE URGED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION ON CHRISTMAS AS MORE STATEMENTS MAY BE ISSUED.

[6 FOOT 3]

We got about a 1/2 of snow just up the road here in Alamogordo as it's beautiful but the roads are clear and dry ( No Ice !!) and the Sacramento mountains are covered with snow as that has to be great for Cloudcroft and Ruidoso Ski Resorts as i see Mt. Sierra Blanca (12.003 ft) covered with snow pack and the sky is as blue as can be.

How'd El Paso do??

[Muhnay]

Well we got some flurries but nothing stuck. I made sure to be out in it while I could because... knowing El Paso it would be gone by 10am if it had.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by 6 FOOT 3

We got about a 1/2 of snow just up the road here in Alamogordo as it's beautiful but the roads are clear and dry ( No Ice !!) and the Sacramento mountains are covered with snow as that has to be great for Cloudcroft and Ruidoso Ski Resorts as i see Mt. Sierra Blanca (12.003 ft) covered with snow pack and the sky is as blue as can be.

How'd El Paso do??

I got home yesterday at mid-afternoon, and took the shorter (distance-wise, anyway) route.....Pecos, Artesia, Cloudcroft....! Cloudcroft was a beehive of activity, and everybody was out playing in the snow! I love it up there other than for the idiot drivers who don't pay attention to what they're doing on narrow winding mountain roads.

My roof had snow on the northside, and there was one wide strip left in the backyard!

Dang!! Almost a White Christmas, but not quite!

I sure am glad to be home.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by Muhnay

Well we got some flurries but nothing stuck. I made sure to be out in it while I could because... knowing El Paso it would be gone by 10am if it had.

There was nothing but the thinnest layer of snow - or maybe it was the sleet that stayed on the grass overnight but only in the back of the house, nothing in the front.

That was probably it for our snow this year. Yeah!

[danieloneil01]

Originally Posted by malamute

There was nothing but the thinnest layer of snow - or maybe it was the sleet that stayed on the grass overnight but only in the back of the house, nothing in the front.

That was probably it for our snow this year. Yeah!

Considering there's only 2 days left in the year, that's not hard to see.

[malamute]

LOL - hopefully that's it for this winter season too!

[6 FOOT 3]

Nice and warm up the road here in Southern New Mexico as people are wearing short sleeve shirts today .