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If you’re connected to anyone living in Arizona on social media, you’ve noticed the avalanche of pics showing a delicate brushing of snow across the cacti and palm trees that spend the summer sweltering in the kind of heat most of us only experience opening the oven.

While snow in Tucson isn’t completely unheard of, yesterday’s storm was unique in one way.

“It’s not unusual to have a storm system come through [in February] and produce snow,” said NWS meteorologist Jeff Davis. “We’ve already had snow on the outskirts of the city this winter,” Davis told OurAmazingPlanet.

“One aspect of the storm that was unusual was we had snow falling in the city around the noon hours. Typically, when we do get snow, it’s either in the evening or overnight, or in the early morning hours when the snow levels drop,” Davis said.

There have only been 165 days of trace snowfall since record keeping began in the late 1800s, and while it isn’t enough to build a snowman that’d get any respect in Chicago, it was a thrill that won’t soon be forgotten.

Full story at LiveScience.

A frosty day in Tuscon.

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