Waking up to a cold toilet seat has been a morning routine and consistently having the heater on is not ideal for a broke college student living in Los Angeles. The real question is, when will this freezing cold weather stop? Because I’m missing our sunny California.

Recently, Los Angeles is being blessed with rainy days, gloomy weather, and believe it or not, snow. We don’t get that quite often.

Pasadena local Xavier Bias walked out of a Whole Foods and noticed a woman shocked at white flakes covering the sidewalk.  The woman wasn’t sure what she was looking at. But Bias knew exactly what it was, noted he is from the East Coast. It was snow. In Pasadena.

“People didn’t know what it was, ” Bias said to L.A Times. “I was like, no this is snow.”

Snow fell in Malibu, Pasadena, West Hollywood, Northridge, San Bernardino, Thousand Oaks, and other places Thursday afternoon.

The winter weather had forced the closure of the 5 freeway through the Grapevine, according to Times.

“This is probably the coldest storm system I’ve seen in my time in California,” Said

meteorologist David Sweet, with National Weather Service in Oxnard.

The unusual storm system that started in Alberta, Canada, was moving over to Nevada and spread snow all over Las Vegas Early Thursday.

By the Afternoon, it was snowing all across Southern California.

Those who are not a fan of the cold, have to hold up a bit longer. Overnight lows will drop into the high 20’s in some areas, but the Southland will expect progressed warming through next week.