The picture above is Mount Diablo, one of the geographical oddities of the Bay Area and a state park. It's double peaked mountain with summits of about 3800 and 3500 feet... not all that tall when compared to the Sierras... but visible to most of the Bay area and much of northern California simply because all the surrounding landscape is flat to hilly, but without much elevation. Its origins are also interesting, but I'll let you check that out if you're so inclined.
Occasionally during the winter we'll get a cold air storm that brings temps in the upper 30s and lower 40s here in Antioch. When that scenario sets up, Mount Diablo will get snow as was the case today. On the news there were people up there hiking, throwing snowballs, enjoying the snow. The pic below was from about this time last year.
For some geographic perspective, here's a map of the Bay Area with Antioch and the Santa Cruz Mountains (another area where it snows in the winter) are circled in yellow. The red arrow points to about where the peaks of Mt Diablo are.
Come see us and we'll take you up Mount Diablo!
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