Cold and snowing in Yucaipa

Photos By Bob Otto / SUN Staff

YUCAIPA - It turned into a winter wonderland in Yucaipa on Monday when temperatures plunged and rain first turned to sleet, then to falling snow.

At Yucaipa Regional Park, Alfredo Gomez of Mentone, bundled up and fished in the rain, sleet, and snow. After three hours he caught one 1 1/2 pound trout. Was it worth it? "It's cold, (but) it will taste good," Gomez said with a smile.

Not far from Gomez, a Canadian goose buried his beak deep in his feathers and raised one of his webbed feet up into his feathers to try and stay warm. And in my front yard, my maple tree was under siege by flurries of puffy, white snowflakes.