Snow ... in the desert?

Okay, so we go to Laughlin, NV for a few days of vacation. The vacation is fine and we are headed back, a little poorer but somewhat refreshed to Las Vegas to fly home. It's raining when we leave but that's no big deal. Now we get to Searchlight, the small town that is the home of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, that is about halfway back.

And what do we see? A blinding snowstorm. In the desert, no less.

I kid ye not. Here is the proof:




It did not make me yearn for home.