[A Snowy Mountain / Photo Credit by Unsplash]

Since August 25, 2024, the United States state of California has been covered in snow.

According to the United States National Weather Service, 7.6 cm of snow fell in Lassen Volcanic National Park in northeastern California.

This is the first snow that fell in August in over 20 years, according to the United States National Weather Service.

The photos posted by United States authorities showed snow piled up near the summit of Mount Rainier in Washington state in northwestern United States.

The pictures also included snow from western California at an observation deck at Yosemite National Park in Sierra Nevada .

Deputy Sheriff Larry March of Madera County, California, expressed surprise at the snowfall in August, calling it “unexpected.”

He said it was rare to be surrounded by snow in the middle of the summer, which was the scenery that made the moment of his work very special.

The Madera County Sheriff’s Office also posted a message urging visitors to be safe.

The United States National Weather Service announced that August was the first time snow had fallen in the region since 2023.

Meanwhile, unusual weather phenomena have been occurring consistently in California as of recently.

During February of this year, a strong storm struck central and southern California, including Los Angeles and San Francisco .

A powerful low pressure system covering the upper atmosphere of California kept causing heavy subtropical rain and strong winds.

Meteorological officials explained that an unusual summer snow storm passed by and brought record-breaking rain to Redding, Stockton, and Red Bluff in northern California.

However, this is not the end of California’s abnormal weather phenomena.

The record-breaking heat wave that caused massive wildfires in the west of the United States was expected to continue into July.

Meteorologists even raised the possibility that temperatures of Death Valley in southeastern California, could soar as high as 53 degrees celsius.

There also were forest fires that broke out multiple times during July including “Complex Fire,” “Park Fire,” “Thompson Fire,” and “Basin Fire.”

Among these fires, large-scale fires threaten the lives of California residents every year.

These fires are thought to be caused due to the results of heavy rain and strong winds.

It rained heavily, but as the cold front passed, strong winds blew, implying that the risk of fire had increased.

At the same time, meteorological authorities issued a flood warning for wildfire areas in northern California at the end of last July.

This year’s wildfire in northern California swept over an area of over 1700 square kilometers , making it the largest wildfire of the year and the fourth largest ever.

Efforts to extinguish the fire and its impacts are nearing an end, but some embers are still burning and appear to be welcoming the news of oncoming rain.

However, the risk of fire still remains due to cold and strong winds, and after the cold subsides, the heat of summer is expected to return, according to weather forecasters.