So, how often does it snow in Tucson?
I asked a bunch of people today, and their answers ranged from once a year to once every three years.
As you may remember from yesterday’s post, it had started to rain in the afternoon. The rain never stopped, and when I looked out the window at 11pm just before going to bed, it was turning to snow.
This morning, while there was no snow on the ground here in downtown Tucson, there was some on the cars in the parking lot of my hotel. I left at 8 a.m. and headed west towards Gates Pass (3,172 ft.), which crosses the Tucson Mountains before dropping down to the flats where both the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and the Western Unit of Saguaro National Park are located.
I knew I was going to see some incredible sights in the Tucson Mountains as I was getting closer:
And I was right:
