Measurable snow has fallen only four days this century on the valley floor at the NWS office near McCarran Airport. The floor of the Vegas Valley is roughly 2,200 feet above sea level, just high enough elevation to allow snow to make it to the ground on rare occasions. Searing summer heat may be Sin City's calling card, but winter can be surprisingly cold at times.
Snow falls on the Las Vegas strip on Feb. 15, 1932, a 2-inch snowfall was the record-heaviest snow documented in the city center. Glendale College students pelted each other with snowballs in that 1949 storm. 9, 1949, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). has occurred only three times since California statehood, most recently on Jan. This occurred as recently as 2007, when Malibu received a dusting of snow.īut to get snow down to the valley floors is truly remarkable, and it hasn't happened since 1962, according to an excellent summary of L.A. SPONSORED: Epic winter clearance sale at Sierra Trading Post Typically once each winter, snow levels drop to a couple thousand feet in a particularly cold storm system, bringing snow to some of the Santa Monica Mountains and lower hills. The Los Angeles Basin is hemmed in by mountains.
#DURING A NINE HOUR SNOW STORM IT SNOWS SERIES#
Fresh snow blankets the mountains behind the downtown skyline after a series of storms that hammered Northern California delivered much-needed precipitation to the Greater Los Angeles Area Jan.
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