Comments on: LA weather woes

By: chieromancer

chieromancer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:45:36 +0000

When it’s 115 degrees in LA in the summer, I tell people it’s the price we have to pay for not having snow.

By far, the worst weather is Minnesota.
Blizzards in the winter, sweltering humidity in the summer, (and mosquitos!)
Plus tornados and flooding! Why bother?

By: CK

CK — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:33:37 +0000

donner, not all of california is prone to mudslides and forest fires. earthquakes perhaps but most are minor, kind of fun actually. i used to live in the midwest and i will never live there again. i hate the humidity and i hate how humidity brings bugs. i use to get so many mosquito bites that i could play connect the dots with them.

By: Phunk

Phunk — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:39:56 +0000

Greetings from predictably unpredictable southeast Michigan (Detroit). Despite the extraordinarily bad economic hardships, this has to be one of the best places to live when it comes to Mother Nature. Hardly ever a natural disaster. Maybe one random tornado a year. If it does flood we only call it that because we don’t know what else to call 2 inches of water in the basement. We have all 4 seasons (sometimes in the same week). Cold yet tolerable winters. Hot but manageable summers. The worst part is that you can never prepare for anything properly because the weather is so unpredictable. It can be 75 degrees and sunny in the morning, and by the evening, 25 and snowing, then back to 50 the next day. Gotta love it!

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:40:48 +0000

Well, I live in California,in Northern California, 60 miles from Oregon. Here, at 3,500 ft, it is four sold seasons, with snow (we got about 44″ in the past four days), rain (our basement has flooded a few times since we’ve been here), it’s no Death Valley, but it gets around 90°, and the fall is always a brisk time. The worst being the snow.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:46:03 +0000

I live in Sunny South Dakota (it was actually nicknamed “The Sunshine State” until just a few years ago.) It’s not as bad a picture as Shelly (above) painted; actually, I don’t complain much about the weather here because I like having four distinct seasons. You mentioned the average temp of 75 in your area, so just for giggles I checked to see what ours is; 45.5 degrees F. I would’ve thought it was a bit higher than that.

Here we have the best(?) of both extremes, hot and cold, but generally only for a short time in the summer & winter months. The rest of the time it’s actually quite tolerable. We get a bad rap for the cold winter months, but that works wonders to keep out the riffraff. So, yeah; South Dakota weather is terrible. Simply terrible. Nobody would ever want to put up with what we get. Ever.

By: donner

donner — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:36:16 +0000

Another Texican here…the Central Texas area is also subjected to flooding when a weather system sits over us for a few days…because we are mostly a rocky soil, there’s no where for the water to go once the rivers fill up…its weird to think our natural disaster is ‘flooding’ but it is…

Californians pay a LOT to live in the land of mudslides, forest fires, earthquakes…I don’t envy you guys at ALL, even WITH our humidity at 90% most days…good luck with that weather out there…

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:36:03 +0000

I hadn’t realized that the summer humidity in New Jersey was so bad until I spent a week in a LA a couple of summers ago. When I walked out of Newark Airport on my return it was like being hit in the face with a wet towel.

By: adrienne

adrienne — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:33:13 +0000

I live in central Oklahoma, and like those flossers above me from Texas, the seasons are a bit sketchy. It’s a long running (albeit unfunny) joke that Oklahoma has four seasons: Early Summer, Summer, Late Summer, and Christmastime.

I’m sitting at my desk sweltering under the automated heat system, which is supposed to be programmable but apparently isn’t. It’s a balmy 76 outside, and a humid 82 inside. Gross.

There are quite a few weird weather phenomena here though. Lots of wind and tornados in the Summer–that’s the actual summer, not Late or Early. The fastest wind speeds ever recorded were in a tornado in Oklahoma: 314 mph!Lightening storms are pretty common here, as well as torrential rain. Occasionally it snows, but it rarely sticks and sleet is way more likely to come pummeling down by the bucketful. Ooooh, and hail! Hail, the golf-ball sized missiles of mass destruction.

Gotta love it though, it’s an adventure to say the least.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:13:08 +0000

I live in Edmonton, Canada and here we have two seasons winter which means lows of minus 30 celsius (-22 F) and construction season. We usually have snow for about six months of the year and when it finally gets warm we have to spend most of the summer patching up the roads to get ready for another brutal winter.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:02:22 +0000

Like the others said here in the Big-D right now its a sunny 70 degrees. Just last week we were dealing with freezing temps and a possibility of snow. Now I’m at work in a dress…The weather changed so fast every one now has a hacking cough, awesome. We also have days of 110 heat and 40-50 mph winds, which is real fun in a dress with your hair in your face! But we get somewhat of a fall here which is very nice. I grew up in Houston where it was mosquito haven. You can’t step foot outside without being robbed of all your blood. One summer in my youth I remember counting over 100 mosquito bites,and that was just on one leg!