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From someone who was only able to handle Boston's climate until he graduated from college, we have seasons on the West coast too. We just don't experience them
by azanar 18y ago
From someone who was only able to handle Boston's climate until he graduated from college, we have seasons on the West coast too. We just don't experience them all in one day as often. :-D
In all seriousness, there is seasonal variation both in temperature (which the East coast also has) and in precipitation (which the East coast doesn't have), but they tend not to vary so severely, and there also tends to be less intra-seasonal variance, either. You won't find Seattle going from 80 degrees and muggy to 30 degrees and snowing over the course of 12 hours -- this happened while I was in Boston in April of a year that hopefully someone else here can fill in.
It might be a bit soft, but I think of it as removing weather from the list of things that distract you from more important work.
- sanj 18y agoI'm assuming you meant that the west coast doesn't have precipitation variation. I quite like snow! Then again, my earliest memories are from here: http://tinyurl.com/cbp4lf http://tinyurl.com/cbp4lf
- etal 18y agoWithin a season. The east coast has four seasons; California has two: a 9-month warm, dry season and a 3-month cool, wet one. Seeing rain during the dry season is always a surprise, and people complain how weird the weather is. (Of course it does happen a few times, but always accompanied by wailing and gnashing of teeth.) During the winter, light rain a few times a week is permissible. And it's still not actually cold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate When I moved out east this year I was shocked that nobody here seems to know what the weather's like on the west coast. I suppose that's because it's never covered in the national news.
- anamax 18y agoThere's more to CA than the coast and the valleys. There's also mountains. If you want snow, the Sierras, which are two hours away from the SF Bay Area, get 20-40 FEET a year, with a 10+ foot snow pack. http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/donner.html http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/donner.html isn't even the place that gets the most snow.
- azanar 18y agoThe variation I was referring to was precipitation amount. The monthly average precipitation graph for Seattle looks very much like a sine wave. The graph for most Eastern Seaboard cities look much more like a constant function.
- comatose_kid 18y agoWow - did you grow up on a diet of seal blubber? I'm from Ottawa, currently living in SV. I only miss the snow once in a while - more now that I have kids though.