Everywhere you go, you always take the weather
I woke up this morning and put on the news. The weather report came on and for the 1st time I have been here it was interesting. When I first arrived in California they were having an unusually wet time of it. However, the rains past and by my wedding day (21 April) the sun was shining and it hasn’t gone back in.
So this makes weather reports pretty boring. Each day the weather boys and girls just have to talk about how hot it is. At the height of summer it got up to 46c here in Sacramento (115f) which let me tell you is very, very warm. Luckily it’s a dry heat as there is no humidity at all.
Anyway the point is weather reports are pretty much the same during the summer here. San Francisco is always a bit cooler than Sacramento as it’s down on the coast, where as here in Sacramento we are nestled in the Central Valley. We went to the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday. When we got there it was around 26c, and there were people there in hats and scarves!! I even saw a couple of people in mittens. I could not believe it. Weather that in the UK would prompt everyone to leave work early and go and lounge around in any green space (or a beer garden) they could find, forced Californians to wear their winter clothes.
Back to the weather report. The first thing the weather man said was that “it’s going to be a cold one today”, utto I thought, I may have to dig out my jumpers, and see where my coat is. He then proceeded to say that the temperature will be a cool 20c. YES 20c and he is telling everyone that it is going to be cold here today. Now the UK doesn’t really get cold when compared to some of our European neighbours, but if 20c feels cold to you then you are going to struggle to cope anywhere else in the world. I have a feeling that it is going to be an interesting winter for me in terms of weather as I fully expect to be wearing shorts all year round.
So this makes weather reports pretty boring. Each day the weather boys and girls just have to talk about how hot it is. At the height of summer it got up to 46c here in Sacramento (115f) which let me tell you is very, very warm. Luckily it’s a dry heat as there is no humidity at all.
Anyway the point is weather reports are pretty much the same during the summer here. San Francisco is always a bit cooler than Sacramento as it’s down on the coast, where as here in Sacramento we are nestled in the Central Valley. We went to the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday. When we got there it was around 26c, and there were people there in hats and scarves!! I even saw a couple of people in mittens. I could not believe it. Weather that in the UK would prompt everyone to leave work early and go and lounge around in any green space (or a beer garden) they could find, forced Californians to wear their winter clothes.
Back to the weather report. The first thing the weather man said was that “it’s going to be a cold one today”, utto I thought, I may have to dig out my jumpers, and see where my coat is. He then proceeded to say that the temperature will be a cool 20c. YES 20c and he is telling everyone that it is going to be cold here today. Now the UK doesn’t really get cold when compared to some of our European neighbours, but if 20c feels cold to you then you are going to struggle to cope anywhere else in the world. I have a feeling that it is going to be an interesting winter for me in terms of weather as I fully expect to be wearing shorts all year round.
posted by Nick at 8:11 AM
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