Or my favorite part is when you are walking on an unshoveled sidewalk and step ankle deep into a wet slushy mess...good times!
I'm extremely jealous of the US East Coast and PNW right now.
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Nah, I just want more rain out here in CA. Mountain bike and hike often enough to see how much the lack of rain has pummeled the trails to dust and desiccated basically anything that grew in the past year. Traveled enough in the past to know how much of an absolute nightmare it is if you get any decent amount of snowfall while trying to travel. If you want snow in CA, go to Mammoth, Tahoe or Big Bear for the day, have fun and go back home knowing you won't have to deal with pain that comes with real winter weather. We're pretty fortunate here to have temperate climates through most of the state.
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Mildly upstate NY here. This was our town last week. Got a much more reasonable one yesterday.
I absolutely adore snow and all this type of weather, but it's having a pretty bad impact on anyone around here whose homeless. Definitely the worst time of the year for anyone without consistent shelter.
the reality of winter
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Behold, New Yorkers Gracefully Leaping Over Slush Lagoons
Gracefully, clumsily, whatever, we're all doing our best.
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My allergies aren't being set off daily, I'm not sweating while setting and doing nothing , and I haven't been bit by a mosquito in the last 3 months.
There's other problems that come with it too, with things like the possibility of pipes freezing, depending on how cold it gets. I've never lived in a place where a dump on snow can literally close you inside until some of it melts/you dig it out, but forget about factors like trying to dig out gas vents and things like that, which can also be problematic if you are stuck inside. Things like that can still be dangerous.
I cannot think of anything less appealing than cold and snow. Cold is evil. Florida sucks for many reasons, but at least I can have the sun most of the year.
It was. There was a cold front that moved in for a few days.
But now it's back into the 80s.
^^ this right here is the truth to it.the reality of winter
Behold, New Yorkers Gracefully Leaping Over Slush Lagoons
Gracefully, clumsily, whatever, we're all doing our best.
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Before global warming fucked up California we would get down to the mid 10s (farenheit) in the winter but now we barely get below freezing.
Grass always looks greener on the other side mate. Wish i could in a place with no snow. (Maybe a little snow on christams, but that's that)
gonna be about 70 in Los Angeles today, that sounds glorious. Would be amazing if it stayed 70 year round.
the reality of winter
Behold, New Yorkers Gracefully Leaping Over Slush Lagoons
Gracefully, clumsily, whatever, we're all doing our best.
Ew. Colorado and the mountain west can get some pretty bad snow but I know the east gets dumped on. You gotta be from a state where it doesn't snow to willingly want to deal with it lol.
People here in Chicago complain about snow all the time but I love it. Especially sunny days after a snowfall, the reflected light from the snow is so bright and cheerful, a nice break from how gray and dark the winters can be. The transit system here is good at dealing with snow, it's very rare for a snowstorm to shut the trains down. It's just a hassle for people with cars.
Yeah, I don't want anyone thinking I want to end up in some sort of 3+ months of frozen wasteland. I'd be happy if I got a beautiful surprise of snow covered hills once or twice a year. Even when we do get a little snow here, it's not enough to even be pretty...it's just starts as mud.
Yep, and imagine trying to drive in that in your car that is completed saturated with salt and brown snow.the reality of winter
Behold, New Yorkers Gracefully Leaping Over Slush Lagoons
Gracefully, clumsily, whatever, we're all doing our best.
Snow turns into that brown garbage right away and just stays there because it's too cold to melt away.
That is the reality of snow that you don't see in movies.
Be careful what you wish for. Snow sucks. We're currently the snowiest city in the US. Sucks, can't do shit. Can't run outside because all of the sidewalks are covered or impassable. Even for people who shovel their walks you'll get to the end of a driveway or something and there will be a mountain of snow making it impassable. In the street if you're running you'll often have to run basically in the middle of the street, and also you have to deal with huge puddles like small bogs every 500 yards or so. Can't walk the dog because there's no place to walk him, so he's all cooped up. Can't take our toddler for a walk because, again, you literally have to walk in the roadway and it's just not worth the risk.
Snow is good for about an hour. Then it's just annoying.
Meanwhile, it'll be like this for another 6 weeks at least. It usually starts to warm up to consistent 30s in March, and then maybe like 36-42 in late march, so you get some melting, but you're always good for a solid 8-12" storm once or twice after March 20, and then a cold spell will keeps it around. Snow is not consistently gone until like april 10th.
Snow is good for about an hour. Then it's just annoying.
Meanwhile, it'll be like this for another 6 weeks at least. It usually starts to warm up to consistent 30s in March, and then maybe like 36-42 in late march, so you get some melting, but you're always good for a solid 8-12" storm once or twice after March 20, and then a cold spell will keeps it around. Snow is not consistently gone until like april 10th.
Need snow in the mountains for water, but it can fuck right off down where I live. Let the mountains get slammed so the snow pack is good and the skiers are happy, but leave me alone. Snow looks nice for about a day then it gets all black and nasty and just looks like shit.
Where exactly are you getting 10's of digits in CA outside of parts directly stuck to the mountains, way up north or odd bits of the central valley everyone ignores? I mean 30 years living as far north as Oakland then down to LA. Our weather is super tame unless you go looking for it. You can absolutely find cold weather here, but the most common places people talk about are some 30s at worst the majority of the time.
Again, not saying there isn't 10 degree shifts and cold snaps, but the coastline of CA is absolutely not that. At best you get winter time that hovers around 20s like right now.
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SLO county reporting too, Santa Cruz before that. I miss there being seasons in CA as well. People that don't buy into global warming have not lived in a place like this to see and feel it escalating every year.
I'm with ya; I would be so relieved to feel a cold and wet winter again for a change. The lack of rain/greenery in SLO is especially stressful.
Don't forget the biggest danger: the idiots who don't clean off the tops of their cars after snowstorms.
This hasn't happened to me yet though
I'm from Mississippi and moved to Boston almost 2 years ago now, and I still get giddy looking at snowfall and all that lol
Don't worry. You'll get there. I was the same when I moved from Hawaii years ago.
I live in the bay area so I'm a 3 hour drive to winter snow conditions. Get away from the coast and drive north if you are looking for that
Mostly just the lack of rain that's punishing to the entirety of the state. The awful part is that those rainy seasons are so uneven now it creates a vicious cycle of robust growth then into immense dry spells that create dangerous situations where parts of the state are tinderboxes if left unchecked. See it out in my county where the local fire crews after the Thomas fire take massive herds of goats to clear underbrush. Hilarious to see groups of them clamoring up hill sides, but even a small herd will chew up a ton of brush.
This.
The roads in my city have all shrunk by about half because there is no place to put the snow.
I paid someone to shovel my driveway and front door but I remember shoveling out my car from 3 feet of snow and then sticking a printer box or a chair in the spot so no one took it.
Snow literally kills and injures tons of people each year. Why on earth does anyone celebrate it? I have work until 11:30 pm tonight, and if the forecast holds I get to drive home in snowy icy conditions before waking up after 5 hours of sleep so I can shovel my car out and drive to work in the snow again tomorrow. Fuck snow.
I would trade you OP, I'm in Colorado where we get plenty of snow, but I hate cold weather and would love to have a mostly year-round warm climate. Snow is such a pain in the ass to deal with unless you are sledding/skiing. It makes everything messy, it takes 10x longer to get anywhere, there are so many idiots who refuse to slow down or give more distance between vehicles while driving, and then if it melts during the day it turns into ice overnight and becomes another shit show the next day.
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We had one day of steady snow and then it was all melted two days later. That was pretty much ideal. Got to see everything covered in white but didn't have to mess with it for weeks.
I don't want snow, but warm weather sucks and I want to be able to wear a sweatshirt outside in winter and not feel hot.
I live in Massachusetts, if you tell me I can work from home permanently then snow becomes much less of a problem. I don't mind shoveling too much, but I absolutely despise driving in it. I think cold is kind of nice, too. All that being said I really loved California weather when I visited there. I could get on board for that year round.