July Snowstorm In Tioga? -- July 11, 2015

ABC30Fresno (California) is reporting:

Caltrans District 9 says Tioga Pass was closed for several hours on Wednesday due to Snow. It has since re-opened.

The pass is east of Yosemite National Park.

This is in California, not North Dakota. 

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.... however, since the Tioga Pass, which is most definitely within California's borders, is enjoying a surprise snowfall as of this July 9 typing. True, the high-through-the-Sierra road is generally closed for much of the year, with a springtime opening and a fall closure, but people who want to get from Highway 395 in the Eastern Sierra into Yosemite Valley, or onto Sacramento or San Francisco, can typically count on the Tioga Pass to be meadow-beautiful, sunny-flowery, and snowfall-free come early July.

Or are July 8 and 9, the dates thus far of the snow, almost mid-July? Is it snowing in the Sierra in mid-July, then? And we thought "Christmas in July" was reserved for store sales and movie theater promotions.

Surprise snowfall? Global warming? 

Meanwhile, back in Texas. About the time it was snowing in California, it was raining in Texas. On July 7, the same days as the Tioga Pass snowstorm, Abilene, in west Texas, had its rainiest day in 129 years. 

A West Texas city has had its wettest day since forecasters began keeping rainfall records for the area in 1886.

The National Weather Service says Abilene on Tuesday received 8.26 inches of rain, leading to street flooding and high-water rescues. Abilene remained under a flash flood watch until Wednesday afternoon, with a 50 percent chance of showers.

the previous daily rainfall record for Abilene was set on May 11, 1928, with 6.54 inches. The prior record rainfall for July 7 in Abilene happened in 1905, with 2.47 inches of rain.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but this certainly doesn't feel like gloom and doom due to anthropogenic global warming.