Average Weather

The weird thing about the weather here is that there isn't much of it. The average is 'pleasantly warm', and +/- 2.7 SDs of the mean is 'Warm enough that it could be a bit cooler' or 'I might consider putting a light jacket on soon'. The wind is virtually always a moderate breeze, coming from the West. (When it comes from the East, the planes take off in the opposite direction from the airport, I've seen that once.) Sometimes it gets as strong as 'strong breeze' and occasionally it's 'Very light breeze'.

I've been rained on once when riding to work, and once it's been windy (it was the talk of the locker rooms on that day). Today was the hottest day for two years, and it reached 30 degrees, for about 10 minutes, S claimed.

So yesterday, the boys were watching the TV, and I was pottering about. Suddenly, there was shouting from the living room - this usually means that something has gone wrong with the TV, like someone has sat on the remote control. This time, the screen had gone blank, and there was a spoken message and text scrolling across the screen with a commentary that said (something like): "Warning, there will be heavy rain, thunderstorms and flash floods in Los Angeles County, in the North Eastern Region. Do not drive through water. Most people who drown in floods are in their cars." It then came again, and said basically the same thing, but also said "Tornado warning in Lancaster and Palmdale. 5:00 pm to 5:19pm"

Given our lack of interesting weather, I thought this was very, very exciting. So I looked hopefully out of the window: the weather was just a bit warmer than pleasant, the breeze was slight, and coming from the west.

I checked the web, on things like the LA Times but there wasn't anything there. I found the same information repeated on the National Weather Service web page. But the weather just stayed slightly warmer than pleasantly warm.