Weekend of 22-23rd Dec
DC Area: 40’s – 50’s, sunny, cripsly cold.
San Diego/LA: – 60’s, windy, sunny
Week of 25th through 30th Dec
DC Area: Balmy 50’s, sunny
San Diego/LA: Low 50’s, sunny, extremely windy thus lowering temps further.
Week of Jan 2nd:
DC Area: 30’s, biting cold, winds, sunny
San Diego/LA: Lower 70’s, sunny
Bags full of thin cotton tees, shorts, capris and swimwear. No points for guessing where I was during what time. Sure, Southern California is picturesque and pretty and the beaches are spectacular and their houses are unique and colorful with hibiscus and bouganvillas peeping over brick walls, reminding me of my own backyard in Madras, but here’s the big question.
Why in the world didnt any of you Californian brags warn me of the frikkin cold?!
Warm weather indeed! Bah!
It’s okay, don’t be chickens now, tell me you hate me and wanted me to suffer in short sleeves and sandals, and then laugh heartily as I shiver and turn blue in the face. Bad people, very bad sadistic people.
Its like Jackie Chan’s First Strike where he packs his clothes for going to Australia and ends up in some cold Eastern European country wearing shorts and T-shirt. ;P
So how did you cope with all of it? Bought new clothes?
Hmm .. I think you carry cold winds in your traveling luggage. I am guessing Californian’s didnt have an inkling that you bring it with you and we in DC are now sure of why the cold weather affects us in the new year.
CA is cold now. Didnt you know it?
Hawkeye: er, no. I mean, really, it’s cold? 😉
Pilgrim: Figured you’d say that. Am like the White Witch of Narnia. :p
Baph: We layered and bought a couple for the kids.
If it’s any consolation, it wasn’t 50s all the time; there were a couple of times when we actually had to bundle up. 😛
On the bright side, maybe you did catch up on your sleep? 😀
LOL! :–) Sorry sorry, but didnt you check the weather?
Cal cold is definitley, not East Coast cold, I told a guy who visited us from midwest in Nov, to bring sweaters and at the airport there he was already changed to shorts, saying it was warm!
Always, always check the forcast, instead of asking locals. :–D Weather temp is only absolute, terms like chilly, hot, warm are all relative. :–D
But otherwise hope you had fun in SoCal :–))
We win….Amen!!!
50’s, even the low 50’s seem rather warm to me! I mean, out here in the tropics, we barely do a 20 or a 25 these days (Granted, been raining heavily lately, but still)
Honey, ?%$ cold is here: –20C average! That’s Celsius BTW… 😉
maybe it was so inorder to make you feel at home (DC)? 😛
Pavan: Yes, the Gods connive well 😉
Zhu: I LOVE cold anyday! This crib is coz I sure wasn’t prepared for the winds to lower temps so much. 🙂
Cyd: er, we talking Celsius? :p
DS: hmm.. do you have 4 distinct seasons? :p
SK: I know, my bad. I was too busy and pre-occupied before we left. Usually am a better planner when it comes to traveling. This time everything was last minute.
I did, the place is nice 🙂
BPSK: True, consolation indeed. Sleep? Don’t ask, am up at 4 these days! 😀
Of course! None of that Kelvin stuff for me, not for weather anyway.
Isn’t that what we call Murphy’s law :p
“Why in the world didnt any of you Californian brags warn me of the frikkin cold?!”
13 years ago, hostelmate and his wife were planning a visit. i was to move into an apartment the weekend they were visiting. it was my first december in fl, had just moved from tx (and was enjoying the nice weather).
pal asks what kind of clothing to bring – i say travel light. note: i am moving to new apartment, my stuff is still on its way from tx (this was the only time in my life when the company paid for relocation).
pal stil reminds me of the couple of nights we slept in whatever thickest garments we could find – no blanket, no bed no furniture no nothing. brrrrr … and we went on a road trip that christmas forgetting that everything – including nasa – is shut that one day. we were very very very hungry by the time we got to this pizza place about 3 pm in the afternoon! now i know better than to go anywhere on christmas day!
and, re: your complaint about irony, here’s my take:
dec 16th weekend – nj … lots of snow
dec 23rd weekend – nj … upper 20s low 30s but no snow (which was the purpose of the visit)
“DS: hmm.. do you have 4 distinct seasons? :p”
do either of you have year-round clothes? 😉
– s.b.
sb: lol – as Dushti says, Murphy’s Law 🙂
..misery loves company. My misery at least :p
Dushti: Nee bayangara shmart illiyo? 😛