It's February 1st, And NYC Is Only 3 Degrees Colder Than LA

(Ha ha, try to justify living in Los Angeles now!)

Sure, Los Angeles is an okay place to live if you like abundant sunshine and driving up Highway 1 on a weekday afternoon with the top down, a surfboard in the backseat, and Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters" blaring on the stereo. But we could never live there! We'd miss the seasons; these magical winter days playing in the snow and nights making love in front of a roaring fire. And then there are precious afternoons like this, where all the windows in the office are open and we're fighting a despicable urge to turn on the air conditioning.

Outside on the streets of NYC, smug young men are no doubt loafing about wearing flip-flops, and the thong guy is sunbathing in Brooklyn Bridge Park. At the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, Japanese apricot trees are in full bloom along with the yellow Adonis plants and azaleas. Not normal, but isn't it heavenly? Like carefree frogs frolicking in a big pot of simmering water, we're just loving it. The west coast has nothing on us now! And if we all drive around the block a few times in our Hummers, surely we can beat LA's high temp today!

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By John Del Signore in News on February 1, 2012 3:50 PM

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nicemarmot

California has been strangely cold the last year or so. I went to San Diego for a bachelorette party in August and Carmel Valley in September for the subsequent wedding, and it was cold as hell both times. I mean, San Diego's not the warmest place on earth, but it shouldn't be 50 degrees there in August.

That being said, I used to live in LA and I did not miss the seasons one tiny bit. I missed snow, but then I would drive up to the mountains and snow galore. I miss snow here too, honestly - it's no fun when it turns into disgusting brown sludge two hours after it hits the ground.

PicoPhreako69

I used to live in LA and I did not miss the seasons one tiny bit. I
missed snow, but then I would drive up to the mountains and snow galore.

Bless you, madame! Well-said.
This native LA-boi bows from the waist in your direction.

If one misses snow in the LA area, one only need head east about an hour or so and there will be plenty of cold, white stuff in the mountains where it belongs. Also, I recall plenty of winters in my junior high and high-school days where walking to school I would see lots of puddles that had crusts of ice over them; there ARE seasons in So Cal, they're a lot subtler than the Basic 4 in more northern spots.

But I've experienced some pretty nice winters in NYC myself (even in spite of the disgusting brown sludge).

Chacun à son goût!

"Tim Osman"

Somethin ain't right - this weather is not normal. On my way home from a job in Long Island last night I decided the weather was nice enough to stop by the waterfront in Long Island City just to walk around and take some photos. Is it man-made global warming? Maybe. Is it climate change - most likely. Climate change could be a natural phenomena or part of a natural cycle and it could also be influenced by man-made pollution. This respite from winter is great but I get the feeling we will have to pay for it one way or another.

diablofreak

i say stop overthinking things and go enjoy it, we're all dying in 10 months anyway.

"Tim Osman"

If 12/21/12 is the end of it all then we all need to stop thinking and start partying

diablofreak

I, for one, welcome this climate change.
Screw you al gore, i get to wear my A&F muscle T on February 1st.

now if i only had some muscles...