weather and job wise
Posted 08-10-2016 at 11:45 AM by Tropics305
I may be moving to southern California (San Diego or L.A. area) to be exact and was wondering does it ever storm out there?? I'm from the Mississippi btw and so use to thunderstorms, lighting storms, hail tornadoes and hurricanes etc...
My point is that i don't mine sunny weather and all but not to much of it and will be dying for a change of diverse weather!! Does it ever storm in California, will I be disappointed? After living in Memphis TN for 15 years I definitely need a change. Have anyone made that move from the south to the west and if so how did u like it??
Pros and cons please!! Oh and does anybody work for the oil and gas company or know someone who works for offshore either in Texas or California. Need somebody to put me on. If the economy is bad right now I wouldn't mind looking into Texas as well.
But yeah back to the weather part
My point is that i don't mine sunny weather and all but not to much of it and will be dying for a change of diverse weather!! Does it ever storm in California, will I be disappointed? After living in Memphis TN for 15 years I definitely need a change. Have anyone made that move from the south to the west and if so how did u like it??
Pros and cons please!! Oh and does anybody work for the oil and gas company or know someone who works for offshore either in Texas or California. Need somebody to put me on. If the economy is bad right now I wouldn't mind looking into Texas as well.
But yeah back to the weather part
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I'm not from the south myself (have lived in NC for a few years before), but my spouse was a west Florida boy. Cali in that area for the most part has two seasons: brown (as in how the landscape looks from the lack of rain) and maybe rainy. We were told we were lucky our first year there because we actually had what I considered a few decent rainstorms that winter. (Rains mostly come in the winter.) Mudslides closing roads and causing traffic jams from rerouting is something you'll learn to get used to during any somewhat stronger than a light rain.
Depending on where in LA county you live, you may get to experience the smoke related to when the large forest fires happen on the hills (late summer/fall). It's a different kind of haze that settles over the valley than smog, but was just as bad for my very mild asthma. We lived first in Glenwood at an extended stay while we looked for an apartment, briefly in actual downtown LA (this was when the sidewalks rolled up at 5pm--nothing to do downtown!--so we left as soon as our sublet was up), Burbank and Tarzana. I liked Tarzana best although Burbank has(d?) an authentic Philly cheesesteak and pizza place I adored.
I don't recall ever hearing a tornado warning at all, and while we lived there, there were no nearby hurricanes or tropical storms. Thinking on it now, I don't even remember ever seeing hail. Though not weather related, your first semi noticeable tremors will feel odd. For me, it was like being too close to a train for 10 minutes. We never had any quakes bad enough for things to fall off shelves, so I can't speak to that.
I'm a four seasons kind of gal that grew up in southern NJ, and have also lived in two snow belt areas of the US in my lifetime by choice because the southern shore town I grew up in didn't get much snow in winters (I love snow). When we lived in LA, the lack of weather changes drove me nuts. My spouse didn't mind nearly as much as I do because he prefers hot to snow in general.
The locals will tell you, "Oh, but you can drive up to the mountains if you want snow!" because they've always lived there and don't know what they're missing.
We did go up to the mountains once with a local friend because he knew how much I was missing the snow, and we actually almost got stuck there because they had a squall that day. We found ourselves racing down away from the storm with all the other day trippers. *chuckles*
You will get the occasional boomer which will sometimes come without rain, and we did actually see snowflakes once in LA--once in the almost four years we lived there--though it didn't stick to anything and was over almost as soon as it began at night.
The weather won't be near what you're used to, especially being from the south. You won't get that soup around you feel at all. Even if you go up to San Fran, because of the sea proximately, it's more typical of a cooler damp than hot and thick of the deep south. Even LA county, really, is a different kind of cool at night than what you're probably used to.
If you do move, best of luck adjusting. I never did, and was very happy when we had reason to get out of the area. I know lots of other folks, though, think the weather is the bee's knees when they move there.Posted 08-12-2016 at 01:23 AM by LilyLeftTheValley
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Ok! Thnx for the advice Lily ��
I appreciate it muchPosted 08-13-2016 at 09:02 AM by Tropics305
