Jim Burnett on national parks traveler:
… the first words you read on the park website—”Hottest, Driest, Lowest“—don’t sound much like winter. That makes the park scene on January 3, 2011, a bit out of the ordinary. …
The snow level was at 2,000 feet in the hottest, driest, and lowest region in the Western Hemisphere.”
The lower elevations of Death Valley rarely get snow—only about once a decade on the valley floor—and that’s usually just a dusting. In contrast, the neighboring community of Pahrump, about 60 miles away, had four to six inches of snow from the recent storm. …
Snow-capped Mountains Offer a Different Look at Death Valley National Park
It even snowed in Vegas.
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