Saturday, December 11, 2010

Bipolar Weather?

Is it summer? Is it winter? Are we in fall? Winter shopping becomes a summer manifest. Christmas shopping becomes a trip to the beach. What is up with this weather?

Never before has the thermometer been so unpredictable. One day a sizzling 80 degrees, the next down to 60. There is no prediction, no reliability. The forecast doesn't come until the week of the day.

Last week, it seemed like an actual winter with chilly air biting at a lovely Christmas temperature of 50 degrees. However, then comes the weekend and expected temperatures rise of 80 degrees setting the records of mid-December temperatures in Southern California.

Burbank felt a consistent 10 days of warm temperatures before diving into 12 days of abnormally cold weather, including two days of all time lows in the 35 degrees which came three weeks after Los Angeles set a record of 97 degrees on November 3rd.

In the end, us Californians just live not knowing which season to expect each week. Some say its a type of adventure and mystery, others yearn for the typical seasons. Either way, I suppose we get both warm and cold in one month. At least we don't have to wait long to receive the next extreme weather type. Here, we just keep flipping every two weeks.

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