Bottoming Temperature ==> Bottoming Fortunes?

A cold snap is upon us:

a ridge of high pressure digs in further and gives way to a cold weather outbreak. The region can expect some of the coldest air of the winter season tonight and over the next couple of nights, with temperatures dropping into the 30s across large swaths of Bay Area.

Though much chillier than this Hawaiian-born immigrant is accustomed to, the freezing temperatures have coincided with heavy snowfall in the Sierras, signalling a possible end to the drought.

This frigid air mass comes to the Bay Area from the Arctic Circle and has quickly made itself at home as it spins over Nevada’s Great Basin. The Sierra’s northern, central and southern snowpacks are all currently running over 195% of normal levels.

The past several years have been pretty rough for the region. The dismal economy, wildfires, the coronavirus, inflation, the population exodus, not to mention crime and homelessness, have afflicted the once-paradisiacal Bay Area.

Maybe the cold, accompanied by heavy snow, is a sign that we've bottomed out.