One wouldn’t expect to experience frost in warm and sunny California, and I certainly didn’t think I’d get to see it happen.
However, it was pretty chilly in Silicon Valley this week, and early morning temperatures were dipping down within a degree or two of freezing.
We’d been driving regularly into San Francisco during midday, but the hospital bumped our appointment up on the day before Christmas (they wanted up close up early), so we had to leave at 8:30 in the morning.
Our car, parked outside overnight, was covered with frost – all the windows and the roof. Nothing like we’d ever see in Hawaii unless we spent the night on Haleakala, Mauna Loa, or Mauna Kea.
If we’d left at our usual 10:15 a.m. time, the frost would have all melted away and we’d never have seen this phenomenon. Anyway, there we sat in the car with the engine running and defroster blasting away, until the frost softened and the wipers could sweep the ice away.
No harm, no foul … we still got to the appointment on time. And at least it gave us one more thing to talk about that day.
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