By LAYLAN CONNELLY | Southern California News Group
PUBLISHED: December 28, 2020 .
It’s not often the sandy beaches turn into a winter wonderland in Southern California.
A cold storm that blew through Sunday night and into early Monday morning brought a rare sight to South Bay beaches on Monday: hail that pelted down and created what looked like a blanket of snow on the sand.
Pono Barnes, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department Lifeguards, noticed the icy sand early morning in Manhattan Beach and El Segundo, taking images and posting them on social media.
Snow Day at the Beach?! As a coastal storm moves through the Los Angeles area today, we have already begun seeing impacts at the beach. The overnight precipitation left us with a rare site of slush/hail on the beach. With precipitation we also see significant beach erosion happening as storm water from all over the county makes through storm drains onto the beach and into the ocean. With the storm water comes pollutants, debris, and trash that all adversely impact our beach ...
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“It wasn’t technically snow, but it’s snow to us at the beach,” he said.
It wasn’t the first time Southern California’s coastline has turned into a winter scene. Back in 2015, a cold winter storm in March blanked the sand in areas such as Huntington Beach and the South Bay with hail, which stuck around for hours, long enough that beachgoers made snowmen just steps away from the ocean.
By late Monday morning, the clouds were parting for blue skies and the “snow” on the sand quickly melted away.
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