07-16-2009, 08:02 PM
In Huntington Beach, we don't really have weather. We have climate.
The mean temperature doesn't swing more than twenty degrees all year. It stays around the high low 60's during winter and high 70's, low 80's during summer.
We typically have one week each of cold (high 40's or so) and hot (90's) weather. They come at the same time each year.
We have three to four good rainstorms in the winter, and one in the summer that has lightning. This year is an El Nino year, so it will probably be wetter and colder than normal in winter... it may even get to the 30's!
In the 28 years I have been here, it has hailed three times and snowed once that I can remember. All lasted less than ten minutes and caused no damage or injury that I know of. The snow melted immediately when it hit the ground... the hail took half a day.
I think we had one tornado about 20 years ago. It hit a trailer park.
No hurricanes. Period.
...so it's always smoking weather here. The tradeoff is it's expensive to live here... we call it the "Sun Tax."
The mean temperature doesn't swing more than twenty degrees all year. It stays around the high low 60's during winter and high 70's, low 80's during summer.
We typically have one week each of cold (high 40's or so) and hot (90's) weather. They come at the same time each year.
We have three to four good rainstorms in the winter, and one in the summer that has lightning. This year is an El Nino year, so it will probably be wetter and colder than normal in winter... it may even get to the 30's!
In the 28 years I have been here, it has hailed three times and snowed once that I can remember. All lasted less than ten minutes and caused no damage or injury that I know of. The snow melted immediately when it hit the ground... the hail took half a day.
I think we had one tornado about 20 years ago. It hit a trailer park.
No hurricanes. Period.
...so it's always smoking weather here. The tradeoff is it's expensive to live here... we call it the "Sun Tax."
