> [Kelly, on Texas...]
> > Don't you miss that? I can't imagine living in a state where the weather is the same for more than ten minutes. :)
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> This is hilarious. It seems like every place I know, volatile weather is an infamous characteristic. How can EVERY place be renowned for volatile weather? Why isn't San Diego simply more recognized as the only place the weather doesn't change at all?
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> In New England, the joke is, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." This is supposed to be hilarious to tourists, but tourists from where? Apparently Texans would be unimpressed. When I was in Florida last, thickly overcast skies rained almost every day...for half an hour. The rest of the time it was bright and sunny. One of those half hour rainfalls was one of the heaviest downpours I remember. Then, when I lived in Europe, well, I remember one time I got off the school bus when it was raining, and during my walk home it cleared into cloudless sunshine, and by the time I walked through my front door, there was a snowstorm.
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> Seems like I've heard of an awful lot of other places having reputations for highly changeable weather. How can so many places have this reputation?

One certainly can't accuse my area of such things. It's sun, sun, sun, excepting the wintertime, when, if it's a "normal" year, it's foggy and mildly cold.

Still, hardly any rain. It snowed in '98, but it only snows once every fifty or so years here.

In fact, the weather hardly ever is in a constant state of change. Instead, we might get an unusually long summer or an unusually long winter. Pretty nice, actually, when you can predict what the weather is going to be like by thinking over yesterday's weather.

Most of California, I believe, is this way. Well, most of the San Joaquin Valley, at least. I've not been to the whole of California, so I can't make claims for it yet.

ri "Used to prefer winter to summer, but now actually enjoys the 100-degree weather; in fact, it's 90 degrees in the room at the moment and I'm enjoying it" a