Sunday marks the anniversary of the only time measurable snow fell in the hottest place in the world.
on Jan. 29, 1922. The records go back to 1911.
The National Weather Service said there have been half a dozen times since 1922 that snow has been observed in the park, but all accumulations have never reached above a trace. The last event reported by observation sites was Jan. 5, 1974.are taken as part of collecting routine weather observations at Death Valley, the NWS said. The total amount of snow that has fallen is reported once a day at the time of observation by the observer on duty.
This observation time is the same as when temperature, liquid precipitation and evaporation readings are taken. The NWS said snow amounts listed for each day represent the observation day ending when the observation was taken.nowstorm in the Death Valley area in the 1800s is how it received its morbid nameMidwestern settlers looking to find gold in California attempted a new, what they believed to be shorter route to California from Utah.
Miles from any water source or civilization, their survival prospects were becoming grim until Mother Nature tossed them a literal lifeline: a snowstorm. "During the night, a stray and crazy looking cloud passed over us and left its moisture on the mountain to the shape of a coat of snow several inches deep," one of the pioneers, Williams Lewis Manly,. "When daylight came, the oxen crowded around the wagons, shivering with cold and licking up the snow to quench their thirst. We took pattern after them and melted snow to get water for ourselves.
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