winter, spring, summer and f-all
all you need to do is c-all
James Taylor, You Got a Friend
The sky in LA was the color of the reflection of water. It was a drive with the top down day. It was a "welcome home from D.C. " day. The birds actually chirped (really!).
My father commented that I had "fought D.C. every step of the way, always converting the time to LA time" in general not accepting where I was. Clearly I had a bad case of weather denial.
Speaking of denial. Those of us who migrated from the East cling to the seasons of our prior home insisting on the structure of our former geography. For example, "wow, it's really hot for January", or "why hasn't summer started? it's already July" or "how weird to be wearing shorts when putting up the Christmas tree".
So here's my proposal: Let's accept reality and change our nomenclature to "reality-based" seasons. I suggest the following:
Spring: October-January
Summer: February-April
June Gloom: May-July
Simmer: August-September
The wikipedia community explains it all clearly, as follows:
Have a better idea? Send in your reality-based weather suggestions!
In temperate and polar regions generally four seasons are recognized: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy season versus the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature. In other tropical areas a three-way division into hot, rainy and cool season is used. In some parts of the world, special "seasons" are loosely defined based upon important events such as a hurricane season, tornado season, wildfire season or a sport season.
TANGENT: Two funny movies that use the same LA-weatherman joke (wow, it's 73 degrees again folks!): Steven Martin in "LA Story" and Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day"
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