Watching the news on WGN after the Bulls game. They show some guy out in the frigid cold with a sledgehammer breaking up the ice on the sidewalk. Frigid cold tonight, they said. Snow coming tomorrow, then back to frigid cold. The snow turns to like snowbanks encased in 3 inches of ice.
Many say that San Diego has the best climate in the US. Based on the few times I've been there, I won't argue the point...it's beautiful. There's no defending shoveling snow and freezing your ass off for 3-4 months/year. All I can say is that it's home and I love it.
San Diego has pretty odd weather, actually. It gets into the 30s at night in the dead of winter and when it's 60 and the sun's out, it's shorts weather. We have the May Grays and the June Glooms, which is basically two months of late spring/summer that is overcast with marine layer most of the time. We dress in layers in the winter, because it is cold in the AM and warms up throughout the day. As soon as the sun sets, the temperature drops 10 or 15 degrees; it's noticeable. It's also like they flip a switch and it goes from summer to winter. Last week it was in the low/mid 70s daily. This week it's barely above 61. We got a rain storm that came in and dropped the temperatures and they're not going up any time soon, according to the weather reports. It is, however, microclimates. When they do the weather report, they do "coast, inland, mountains, and desert" forecasts. It certainly snows in the mountains, and they ski and all that. I remember they had ski hills in the Chicago area; maybe it was southern Wisconsin. Since there's no actual hills or mountains, they made them out of piled up garbage - landfill. I also remember the winter before I moved to California, two things vividly. First, it was the SuperBowl at Stanford. It was 80 degrees there, 80 below with the wind chill in Chicago. 160 degrees warmer. Second, commuting to work on a road that was two lanes in each direction, one lane each way was piled with snow taller than the cars. One lane in each direction.
Just shoveled/swept maybe a 1/2 inch. I would've waited if my wife wasn't out and about. While I'm sure San Diego has its weather vagaries, I'm guessing that San Diego gets more Chicago retirees than Chicago gets San Diego retirees. Is what it is.
Weather is a miniscule part of my quality of life assessment. I live in Ft Lauderdale and its 80 degrees but I still miss my city every day. Clicking heels...there's no place like home....there's no place like home. Damn. Musn't work with sandals.
Just need to keep the dog from drinking out of the aligator pond in the back yard and you're all set.
night patrols out in the boonies of Camp Pendleton in April were pretty damn cold as well. I've been to SD more than a few times, liked the weather, but never really got over the lack of "green".
I moved. That was back in Tampa Bay. Now I'm on a canal and my back yard is filled with White Ibis, Muscovy Ducks and Iguanas. Better fishing than the pond was though and so far no gators.
