LA's climate sucks... (Long Beach: tornadoes, to live, mold)

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by j760

With all due respect it was in this thread that you said the weather in L.A. is so boring and that it's one reason why you were wanting to leave. So which is it?

Los Angeles's weather is boringly almost perfect. Almost every day is perfect weather. It gets so that days are almost Xerox copies of the previous days. Shirt sleeves, jeans and running shoes in the summer, shirt sleeves, jeans and running shoes in the winter. I don't own an umbrella let alone galoshes or a trench coat. I feel put out the few days cold enough to require a jacket. We have two seasons, summer and winter, except that winter is just a cooler version of summer. I take pictures when it rains, to remind myself what rain looks like. I can go almost anywhere, any season, any time of the day or night with little concern for what the weather is. LA weather is boringly almost perfect.

I'd like a little more variety. I enjoy bad weather as long as there isn't too much of it. I love thunderstorms. We get thunderstorms only rarely in LA.

I'm not inconsistent with what I've posted in other threads. I want to leave LA because of the congestion, traffic, crime and all the big city ills. The weather is the best part of LA even if it's boring. LA's weather has absolutely nothing to do with why I want to relocate when I retire.

I hope that covers the subject.

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

Dawn, maybe you should consider switching to decaf coffee.

Originally Posted by DawnW

No, I should consider moving out of the South.....the comments about "those leftists Californians" is about to drive me batty!

I think you're a little bit late on that one. You let things get under your skin a little bit too much. There's no need to right every wrong, or call out every left. You go nuclear on somebody people just think you're the one who is nuts. Better to save the nukes for when you really need them.

[CalGal953]

Originally Posted by LALady

I love LA's weather!

Me too!

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by Avalon08

June was known for "June gloom", which was a layer of fog that typically burned off in the afternoon.

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You guys who live in SoCal are very lucky, IMO.

You haven't really seen June gloom in all it's glory. The last few years haven't been extreme on that. Some years we have May gray followed by June gloom and we go for almost two months but nothing but low overcast and okay to muggy days.

I want to remind everybody about the so-called Chinese curse (apocryphal story probably incorrect), "May you lead an interesting life." Interesting things include the tumult of war, civil uprisings, plagues, droughts and all manner of bad fortune. To consider our boring but pleasant weather a curse flies in the face of what bad weather really is in the other parts of the country or the other parts of the world.

Boring is sometimes good. We are lucky. We could be having hurricanes.

[SandyCo]

I am one of the few people who loves the marine layer that blankets much of the San Fernando Valley and the L.A. basin in May and June. Why? Because when that goes away is when the temperatures soar into the 90s out here! Give me May Gray and June Gloom into August, please.

Having said that, I don't think I could be happy in the Pacific northwest. Too much gloom, dark, and dampness would not be good for me.

[timelesschild]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

You haven't really seen June gloom in all it's glory. The last few years haven't been extreme on that. Some years we have May gray followed by June gloom and we go for almost two months but nothing but low overcast and okay to muggy days.

LOL... back in Kentucky there were 11 months a year of "June gloom". Plenty of depressed folks there.

[Avalon08]

You haven't really seen June gloom in all it's glory. The last few years haven't been extreme on that. Some years we have May gray followed by June gloom and we go for almost two months but nothing but low overcast and okay to muggy days.

Well, I haven't lived there since 2001. I don't remember any extreme stretches of June Gloom. I do know that if there is bad weather to be had in SoCal, it usually is whenever I schedule a vacation there. A few years ago, I went out in October for my friend's wedding -- the entire five days I was there, including the day I left, was gray, rainy and miserable. Very atypical, but I was so annoyed!

[SandyCo]

Avalon, I remember telling a new L.A. resident once that it never rains until after January 1st. That year it poured in October! Now I don't say anything.

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by SandyCo

I am one of the few people who loves the marine layer that blankets much of the San Fernando Valley and the L.A. basin in May and June. Why? Because when that goes away is when the temperatures soar into the 90s out here! Give me May Gray and June Gloom into August, please.

It's funny, evidently my attitude varies. I recall working in Palm Springs in '94, spending the entire week there in sunshine and beautiful weather (winter) then coming back to the Valley on weekends and suffering the oppressive blanket cloud layer, hating it, wishing I could get back to PS.

This year I actually welcome June gloom. Bring it on. I don't know why I like it this year, but I hope the sun disappears until July.

[MyKindOfTown]

No place including L.A. is perfect.

Here in SoFla the summer is humid, rainy and filled with the threat of a coming killer 'Cane.

OTH, our winters are what you'd associate as L.A. weather. Low humidity, 70's, dry. During actual L.A. winters too often it's 56.

A few questions. How many days a year do you think it's warm enough in L.A. that you could hop in the pool and not be cold when you get out? Also, how many nights a year does it feel balmy? And lastly how many nights is it cold enough that you wish for a parka?