Weather

Everyone talks about the weather, but no one ever does a thing about it.

Well, here no one talks about the weather. At all. During the traffic and weather report on KIIS FM yesterday, there was plenty of traffic but the girl actually just said "Weather - not much to say." That was the entire weather report. Linda thinks Jill and I are so weird that we actually check the weather or ask people about it.

Of course, I guess that's the luxury of living every day in sunny and warm conditions. I'm told it rains "a lot" in February (apparently for about 15 minutes each day for a few weeks straight) and there's this thing called the June Gloom, that actually happens in May, which just results in overcast skies.

No one here ever has to check the weather at night to know whether to set the alarm clock 30 minutes early to shovel out their car and still get to work on time.

I expect that a lot of it is the driving-centric culture as well. Walking a mile to the T stop every day means that there's a big difference between 72 and 82 F, but it's all just "sunny and pleasant" from the inside of a climate controlled car.