I remember UK newspaper headlines like that from the 1980s when you’d have an unseasonably warm day. I wonder if they still have them? (The headlines, I mean, not unseasonably warm days…) Anyway, we had a day like that yesterday, with the high temperature in the mid 80s for a while. It came about all of a sudden, seemingly out of the blue.
So of course every other person in the city (and their dog, blades, bike, etc.,) went to the beach. (Or at least at times it felt like it was half the population…)
I wonder if the other half went to the mountains?
-cvj
yesterday I went to the dumpster, wearing shorts and a t-shirt. On the way I accidentally dropped the keys into the snow. hey, that was real fun trying to find them while icicles started growing on my nose.
here still -13C, feeling like -20C or so.
*California Dreaming*
Yes, the UK papers still run Phew What A Scorcher headlines. In fact, the Express, when it’s not fulminating against ‘death taxes’, celebrating house price rises, bemoaning the cost of mortgages, or using any excuse to picture Princess Diana, tends to run alarmist headlines about the forecast.
This cover from a couple of weeks ago is a good example, as the snow barely reached two inches, and Britain was more “mildly inconvenienced” than “PARALYSED”. Still, it’s good for a laugh.
— Paul (Mr Candace)
Or at least at times it felt like it was half the population…
Half the population perhaps of those that live relatively close to Santa Monica Bay, or those who can afford to park these days perhaps??? Nothing in the recent history of SoCal/LaLa, has matched the beach usage of the glory days of the Great Depression. I have a photo collection from that period (and sorry, no scanner or digcam) that documents the early days of ocean lifeguarding. There were times, during these same sorts of late-winter thaw, and hint of summer, daze, when you could not see any sand for the people. That includes most of the first hundred or so feet into the water as well. And given the position from where you took the above picture (quite close to where i used to live back in the late 60’s{returned to live several blocks north in the late 70’s}), some of the 30’s images i have, are of the beach upon which you stand.
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It’s about “80” right now, and it’s just over an hour or so past midnight. 😛