> [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?

Because, speaking as one who's been subjected to life in SoCal for the past three years, when you're (un)lucky enough to have no weather, you quickly stop thinking about the weather at all.

Around here, I can tell you, the only novelty in climate comes every November or so when "hot, dry" becomes "mild, wet" and then in March when it changes back from "mild, wet" to "hot, dry". Once in a while we have "windy" thrown in there for a week or so.

At least I have it better off than my cousins in Seattle, for whom I understand the only novelty is changing from "mild, wet" to "cold, wet". (This is what they call the "end of summer".)

SoCal weather is like, I don't know, having one of those friends who's quiet, helpful and never talks. Like Teller from Penn and Teller. You appreciate it, but once in a while you wish the guy would *say* something. It's *aggravating*. Eventually you end up ignoring the person and using him as a doormat. (I understand exactly where Penn is coming from.)

(Yes, before you say anything, I know there's earthquakes. Somehow I've managed to sleep through all the ones in my area. Go fig.)

Ar"I miss New England"thur