What kind of weather to expect on a trip from LA to Oklahoma

I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?
Les

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I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter.

Variable

I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?
Les

Its a possibility but unlikely to cause serious disruption.

Keith

On Mar 15, 2:16*pm, Les wrote:
I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?
Les

Snow is possible, esp the higher elevations. March is spring, and
spring weather is not predictable. You could have very nice weather,
but could encounter rain and snow.

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:16:26 GMT Les wrote:

:I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
:Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
:am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
:Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
:part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?
:Les

Watch out for speed traps in OK. The county cops used to ticket for 1mph (yes,
one) over.

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Les wrote:
I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?
Les
When you get to L.A. you will encounter at some time a certain density
of smog like you have never encountered before. The only fortunate
thing is that you won't be there when it gets hotter and worse. :-(

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On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:16:26 GMT, Les wrote:

I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?
Les

The weather through the desert to Phoenix should be delightful,
although a winter rain storm is still possible. Northern Arizona
and northern New Mexico have fairly high elevations and those
desert rain storms could be snow storms there. But the odds are
against it, but remember Murphy's Law; every now and then they
have a ferocious winter storm at the end of March in the high
country.

Should the weather reports be pessimistic, it doesn't lengthen
the trip a whole lot to take the southern route through Tucson
and then up I-20 and then into Oklahoma.

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It seems to me I heard somewhere that Brian K wrote in article
:

Les wrote:
I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?

When you get to L.A. you will encounter at some time a certain density
of smog like you have never encountered before. The only fortunate
thing is that you won't be there when it gets hotter and worse. :-(

It looks like you haven't been in Los Angeles for a while if ever. PM10
[particulates] readings for the South Coastal Region (including Los Angeles)
since 1988, the first year they were recorded; other smog components are tracked
separately:

[Begin]
Year 1988 93 98 06

Est. Days Std. 305.5 251.0 170.9 241.1
Annual Average 94.0 72.5 50.2 62.3
3-Year Average 94 79 65 62
High 24-Hr Average 271.0 231.0 116.0 135.0
[End]
http://www.arb.ca.gov/adam/cgi-bin/d...ndsb.d2w/start

Going from memory as a long-time resident of the Los Angeles area, the worst
smog was in roughly the 1960s and 1970s.
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Don Kirkman

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:36:34 -0700, Don Kirkman
wrote:

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Brian K wrote in article
:

Les wrote:
I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?

When you get to L.A. you will encounter at some time a certain density
of smog like you have never encountered before. The only fortunate
thing is that you won't be there when it gets hotter and worse. :-(

It looks like you haven't been in Los Angeles for a while if ever. PM10
[particulates] readings for the South Coastal Region (including Los Angeles)
since 1988, the first year they were recorded; other smog components are tracked
separately:

[deleted]

Going from memory as a long-time resident of the Los Angeles area, the worst
smog was in roughly the 1960s and 1970s.

Smog is a lot less than it used to be. When visitng teh LA basin
back in the 60s and 70s I remember that one could actually taste
the smog. On my first trip ever to LA with my boss, who had lived
there, though, it wasn't so bad. As we drove up the San Diego Fwy
toward Canoga Park I asked him what the big snow-capped mountain
off to our right was. His jaw dropped and he told me that it was
Mt Baldy, and he never saw it in the eight years he had lived
there.

It turned out some unusual Santa Ana winds had blown the smog out
to sea. When we flew out the next day the smog could be seen as a
huge bank out at sea waiting for the wind to turn.

But nowadays the smog is more like a haze, something the basin
always did have even before the arrival of Europeans.

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* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:16:26 GMT, Les wrote:
I am planning a car trip from Los Angeles to
Oklahoma on March 30. What kind of weather
am I likely to encounter. I will travel through
Phoenix, then Northern New Mexico and Southern
part of Kansas. Should I be prepared for snow?
Les

You might. I suggest you gain the skills required to read a weather
report. Buying a local newspaper every 500 miles and reading the weather
section will suffice.

Hatunen wrote:

It turned out some unusual Santa Ana winds had blown the smog out
to sea. When we flew out the next day the smog could be seen as a
huge bank out at sea waiting for the wind to turn.

We don't have smog in San Diego proper, which is pretty-much on the coast (the
inland valleys are another story but even in places like El Cajon it's rare).
Euros on vacation here sometimes mistake the marine layer, a grey mass that
sits on the coast, mornings typically, as smog. How they turn sweet-smelling
obvious sea mist into smog is sheer magic or politics.

I once overheard two Canadians near the wooden roller-coaster in Mission Beach
at 8:30 AM on a summer morning complain about the "typical American hype"
about San Diego weather; after all, no sun to be seen! I struck up a friendly
conversation and explained to them how it works here (and along much of the
California coast). About an hour later sun blazed and baked the beach as the
marine layer got burned off and pushed back.

June of course is the month when it might not burn off and can persist all day
long some days. Called June Gloom, but a healthy gloom; not a particle of smog
within sniffing distance. See someone cautiously sniff the air and I'll bet
you a dollar to a dime it's a tourist of some sort, bless their benighted
little noggins. Nex