Today it was so cold in Los Angeles that

smithdoor · Dec 15, 2013

Is this call global warming
Good news great for photo op

Dave

hoffy said:
Spare a thought for our friends in Cairo, Egypt - snow for the first time in 112 years

http://world.time.com/2013/12/13/rare-snow-dazzles-cairo-area-residents/

Black Dog · Dec 15, 2013

Nuttiness

QUOTE=lxdude;1582412]Right now, 7:30PM, it's 55 degress F. Perfect for the Christmas parade tonight! It's a big one, about 120 entries, and will run over 2 1/2 hours, so it's nice that folks will not get too chilly. Last week at this time, it was so cold that the squirrels were frantic because their nuts were frozen to the ground![/QUOTE]

:confused:Ouchski!

Sirius Glass · Dec 15, 2013

lxdude said:
Right now, 7:30PM, it's 55 degress F. Perfect for the Christmas parade tonight! It's a big one, about 120 entries, and will run over 2 1/2 hours, so it's nice that folks will not get too chilly. Last week at this time, it was so cold that the squirrels were frantic because their nuts were frozen to the ground!

55°F! That is almost inhumane! Break out the parkas and thermal underwear! If it gets any colder the brass monkeys will have to come inside and dogs will refuse to go outside to relieve themselves! Oh the inhumanity!

MFstooges · Dec 19, 2013

Today it's raining so hard in LA that I actually had to use my windshield wiper.

Sirius Glass · Dec 19, 2013

Did you remember where the control is located?

StoneNYC · Dec 19, 2013

MFstooges said:
Today it's raining so hard in LA that I actually had to use my windshield wiper.

Ironically the last time I was in LA for 8 days, it poured and flooded for 7 of them...

MFstooges · Dec 19, 2013

Sirius Glass said:
Did you remember where the control is located?

One of them gave tic-toc sound which reminded me to use that one before making turns in LA traffic.

Black Dog · Dec 19, 2013

Oh well at least there wasn't an earthquake

Sirius Glass · Dec 19, 2013

StoneNYC said:
Ironically the last time I was in LA for 8 days, it poured and flooded for 7 of them...

Sounds normal from mid November to the end of April. Kinda like a bathtub is pouring water on you except the bathtub never empties.

StoneNYC · Dec 19, 2013

Sirius Glass said:
Sounds normal from mid November to the end of April. Kinda like a bathtub is pouring water on you except the bathtub never empties.

Nope, Mid December 2010... On top of that, Dwayne's messed up the only roll of Kodachrome I shot of the Hollywood sign on the one day it didn't rain...

lxdude · Dec 19, 2013

I remember that, Stone. An unusually wet rainy season. Lots of localized flooding as drainage was sometimes overwhelmed. Sorry it messed up your trip, but it's your fault for not coming here in 2009 or 2011 instead!

StoneNYC · Dec 20, 2013

lxdude said:
I remember that, Stone. An unusually wet rainy season. Lots of localized flooding as drainage was sometimes overwhelmed. Sorry it messed up your trip, but it's your fault for not coming here in 2009 or 2011 instead!

In 2009 I wasn't shooting film and in 2011 you couldn't get Kodachrome processed any longer... This was my Kodachrome project (different than Dan's but actually that's how we first met) and I was traveling the country, I only finished paying off that bill earlier this year....

lxdude · Dec 20, 2013

Well then, it's your fault for not taking up film sooner!!

StoneNYC · Dec 20, 2013

lxdude said:
Well then, it's your fault for not taking up film sooner!!

Oh I shot film before that for many years just not professionally, and from 2007 to the first half of 2010 I was shooting digital... Shhhhh... Then got back to film

lxdude · Dec 20, 2013

Oh, so it's your fault for shooting digital! :w00t:

BrianShaw · Dec 20, 2013

The Hollywood sign is still there waiting for your return. It doesn't care if you use Kodachrome or Ektar.

StoneNYC · Dec 20, 2013

BrianShaw said:
The Hollywood sign is still there waiting for your return. It doesn't care if you use Kodachrome or Ektar.

Haha I'll use Velvia100....

Sirius Glass · Dec 20, 2013

StoneNYC said:
... and from 2007 to the first half of 2010 I was shooting digital... Shhhhh...

Oh that explains it. I always suspected that you were not in the right mind.

DREW WILEY · Dec 20, 2013

Don't kid yourself. The LA area is surrounded by some pretty high mountains, and in that essentially desert climate, when it rains it can sometimes flashflood. The general area is known for both catastropic mudslides and at least one infamous dam failure. There are even ski resorts above town. Here on the northern Cal coast our cold season seems to be summer, so nobody even has air conditioning. But just ten
miles inland it can be easily be fifty degrees hotter, once the coastal fog is blocked by the first range of hills. The Sierras are a completely
different story. While sub-zero temp are rare, it gets plenty cold enough to be fatal, even in summer. And remember the Donner Party? They
got in trouble tackling the EASIEST pass over our mtns in the Fall. But frankly, up here we don't consider LA as legitimately part of California.

Sirius Glass · Dec 20, 2013

DREW WILEY said:
The Sierras are a completely different story. While sub-zero temp are rare, it gets plenty cold enough to be fatal, even in summer. And remember the Donner Party? They got in trouble tackling the EASIEST pass over our mtns in the Fall. But frankly, up here we don't consider LA as legitimately part of California.

Remind me NOT to use the caterer that the Donner party used!

KenS · Dec 20, 2013

MFstooges said:
Today it's raining so hard in LA that I actually had to use my windshield wiper.

I this part of the Prairies, we don't call it rain.... its referred to as liquid sunshine

Ken

Vaughn · Dec 20, 2013

DREW WILEY said:
Don't kid yourself.... Here on the northern Cal coast our cold season seems to be summer, so nobody even has air conditioning.
But frankly, up here we don't consider LA as legitimately part of California.

Up here, we consider SF to be Southern CA. Northern CA starts at Santa Rosa. If we are feeling nice we say the SF Bay Area is Central Coast CA.

lxdude · Dec 20, 2013

Sirius Glass said:
Remind me NOT to use the caterer that the Donner party used!

As parties go, it was kinda dead.

Vaughn · Dec 20, 2013

lxdude said:
As parties go, it was kinda dead.

But good finger food. sorry......

brianmquinn · Dec 21, 2013

I once was snowshoeing in Quebec. It was a gorgeous day but the high temp was minus 32. After an hour or so my Pentax Super Program stopped working. So I will have to say it really was too cold for me that day. If my camera is not happy I am not happy.

Today it was so cold in Los Angeles that

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