20 | February | 2013 | SOUTHWEST PHOTO JOURNAL

U.S. BRACES FOR WORST BLIZZARD IN RECENT HISTORY, TUCSON GIGGLES ABOUT THE WHITE STUFF….

AS NIGHT APPROACHES SNOW CONTINUED TO FALL IN NORTHERN TUCSON.

SLUSHY, RE-FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW WILL MAKE DRIVING CONDITIONS DIFFICULT.

THIS IS ONE CONVERTIBLE THAT DOESN’T HAVE ITS TOP DOWN TONIGHT.

TUCSON, ARIZONA was surprised today at Noon with a blizzard–not one of those ice cream drinks, a wanna-beee whiteout or blowing snow all through Tucson mid-town.

Chester, a Sheltie takes a hard look at all the white stuff falling on his patio.

The higher elevations were receiving major snow and the road to the top of the Catalina Mountains was closed at the base, to anyone but residents and employees with 4×4 or chains. All the major southern Arizona Peaks will get snow tonight and as night fell in northwest Tucson, there was some accumulation–but elsewhere it was already gone…

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