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The first snow of the year blew into Tehachapi on the night of Dec. 7, adding a Christmas look to the landscape and signalling the coming winter in a convincing way. The storm began as rain on Friday morning and gradually changed to snow as both the sun and the temperature went down. As most of them do, the snowstorm came in from the west, so Bear, Brite and Cummings Valley tended to get slightly more moisture than the Tehachapi Valley and snow accumulated more heavily on the west side of buildings, trees and signs. Our higher, colder elevations reported as much as 5 and 6 inches of snow while a slight temperature increase of only a few degrees at lower elevations and in town meant that snow barely covered the lawns of downtown Tehachapi. The slow-release nature of snow means that moisture contained within had the maximum opportunity to soak in rather than run off, so last week’s light snowstorm was even more welcome than an equivalent amount of rain. Snow also...
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