Originally posted by wwattles
Sometimes it seems that way. In fact, we joke around that the weatherman just has to tape a report that says, "Lows in the 40's, highs in the low 70's by the coast, with 80's in the inland valleys. Coastal fog will burn off before noon." That one tape covers about 75% of the year!
Yep. Most of the time it's really nice here. The "June Gloom" sucks though. Day after day of drab, featureless gray skies -- gets pretty depressing.
Some days in summer get warmer, and some days in winter get colder/wetter. Like this year - we had the wettest 2-week period in the history of weather records in San Diego. Last winter we had about a week of temps that were below freezing, reaching highs in the mid-30's.
Just a couple months ago we had a thick layer of frost every morning for while.
BTW, back in the late 60's it actually SNOWED here! I was in junior high at the time, and had a truly evil teacher. Everyone else got to leave class and enjoy the (brief) snow -- our teacher not only made us stay inside, he even closed the drapes so we couldn't see it! Yeah Teach, listening to you drone on is SO much more important than seeing a once-in-a-lifetime event!
As for snakes, we've got an ocassional rattler, but those are pretty rare. Bugs? Almost non-existent. Mice? Lots of field mice. Ants? Just a few of the little, non-biting sugar ants.
I love the lack of annoying bugs. I keep my door wide open most of the year and never have anything more annoying than the occasional fly. Mice and rats aren't much of a problem indoors unless you have a really rundown old house. We do get rats living in the tree next door sometimes -- when that happens I put out some traps near our birdfeeders at night. Trouble is, I have to remember to bring them in before I go to bed. Forgot to do that a couple times and nailed a bluejay and a sparrow.
It seems that most of America has figured out that San Diego is a nice place to live - they announced this morning that the MEDIAN (throw out the highs and the lows and take what's left) home price for the entire county has topped $500,000, with no sign of the growth easing up.
Housing prices SUCK here, even a dumpy one room apartment in ghettoville costs an arm and a leg to rent.
Gas prices are also among the highest in the country. And most of the nice features of San Diego are vanishing due to overcrowding and development.
But at least we're close to the desert, aka "God's gift to rocketry".
