Winter in LA is? (Los Angeles, San Francisco: apartment, house, tornadoes)

[californio sur]

It's hard to discern seasons in SoCal but there are subtle reminders that winter is coming. I think that some of the signals of season change are actually funny:

You know it is winter in Los Angeles when:

1] You wear socks with your flip-flops.

2] You dig out of the closet your sweaters & wind-breakers

3] You close the windows at night

4] There's less daylight

Any others?

[Lafferty Daniel]

You hear people complaining when the high is "only" 60 degrees. These are usually the same people that wear parkas & winter boots when the rest of us simply wear a shirt with long sleeves.

[jbunniii]

It's funny - to me the winters in LA felt colder than anywhere else I've lived, and I grew up in Chicago. How can that be? It's because every apartment I lived in was uninsulated, had drafty windows, and had barely functioning heat (oddly placed wall-mounted heaters that would warm a certain radius of a hallway, forming a comfortable place for my cats to sleep but not doing me much good). This often resulted in 50-60 degree indoor temperatures for days at a time. Nonetheless I still much preferred that to the 100+ degree hot spells that could strike in nearly any month of the year.

That said, San Francisco is the only place I've ever lived where I sometimes had to run the heat in the SUMMER.

[californio sur]

Originally Posted by jbunniii

It's funny - to me the winters in LA felt colder than anywhere else I've lived, and I grew up in Chicago. How can that be? It's because every apartment I lived in was uninsulated, had drafty windows, and had barely functioning heat (oddly placed wall-mounted heaters that would warm a certain radius of a hallway, forming a comfortable place for my cats to sleep but not doing me much good). This often resulted in 50-60 degree indoor temperatures for days at a time. Nonetheless I still much preferred that to the 100+ degree hot spells that could strike in nearly any month of the year.

That said, San Francisco is the only place I've ever lived where I sometimes had to run the heat in the SUMMER.

I live in a very old house w/ no insulation & know when it is windy outside because it is windy inside! Once our furnace broke down & we didn't have the money to fix it so we went without heat except space heaters in bedrooms. I was surprised that one could actually get by without any heaters during winter. But once summer hit we found the $ to fix the central air because summers in Pasadena are way too hot.

[1200RT]

For what its worth, I've never been able to get in the Christmas spirit in LA. It takes a trip "home" to the east coast to really get into it.

[LASam]

The biggest sign that winter has arrived in LA is when it rains! It's quite the event.

[adysmom]

Winter in Los Angeles is the same as summer in Los Angeles but it's colder.

[ZenMaster2008]

When the potholes come back

[drshang]

Winter in LA is like Spring in most of the country.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by drshang

Winter in LA is like Spring in most of the country.

Minus the thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, flooding, and snow.