Too Many People Bought Carbon Credits in San Francisco

The last time I flew out of San Francisco Airport they had machines in which you could purchase carbon indulgences for the damage to the environment your flight would inflict.  The rental car place also offered, for an extra fee of course, the ability to offset your car's carbon footprint.

Apparently too many people bought those things (from the AP):

Hilly areas of San Francisco got a rare light dusting of snow, the National Weather Service said Saturday.

Snow fell briefly late Friday and early Saturday on the city’s Twin Peaks neighborhood and some other areas with higher elevations, meteorologist Mark Strobin said.

“A little bit up in the hills,” Strobin told The Associated Press. “It snowed down to about 400 feet.”

But there was only rain downtown and in other other areas of the near sea level city, and the snow that did fall disappeared rapidly.

The city last saw snow on the ground in 1976, when an inch fell.

Strobin said the higher regions might have had snow dustings since that measureable snow fell 35 years ago. He said it was still too early to tell how this event will be recorded.

Strobin, who is based in Monterey, Calif., said that city also got a rare dusting of snow.

The temperatures down here today are much lower than normal (it's about 55 as I write this), but not as low as expected earlier in the week. No snow in the foothills of Orange County (darn). I was hoping to get some great photos of snow on Saddleback this morning, but what snow there is was underneath the clouds and not as low as I thought it might be.