San Diego, California has pretty good weather really. Most people from a normal climate would love to come here on vacation just like most people like ice cream. But when it’s ice cream and only ice cream for every meal day after day, year after year, well, it can get tiresome. Rain can ruin a picnic but sunny days kill way more people than lightning storms.
Often in September the weather finally stops getting hotter and in October, it actually starts getting cooler. But then the wind changes and the desert comes blowing in. Almost over night the temperature rockets up.
That feeling you get when you’re baking cookies and you open the oven to check on them is how your whole body feels for days at a time. Often that desert wind is strong and it can be like standing in front of a scaled up hair dryer. It’s a very strange sensation really.
It’s not just summer either. I haven’t lit the pilot in my furnace for at least 6 years. I can not remember ever spending a day where I was generally too cool (where I wasn’t hiking above 1500m).
The best weather related fact about San Diego is not the "nice" days. It’s that these so-called nice days are so harsh that they also discourage insects. Unfortunately they also discourage plants (that are not on fire). One can’t have everything though I suppose and bug-free is pretty nice.
If you like being very hot very often, then San Diego has one of the best climates you’ll find. I, however, am looking forward to leaving.
It’s the edge of the world And all of western civilization The sun may rise in the East At least it settled in a final location
Update: Here’s some more of this madness.
