Seasons!

There's a weather advisory for Fresno today. Usually it's a heat advisory - but today it's a "significantly cooler temperatures" advisory.

It's supposed to be up to 30 degrees cooler today.

Santa Barbara's whole range of temperatures doesn't fluctuate more than 30 degrees. It gets to be as low as 60, and everyone complains about being cold, or as high as 80 and everyone complains about the heat. When I lived in Santa Cruz it was the same. There's an expectation that you should be comfortable outside in jeans and a t-shirt, year round - and usually that is true. Sometimes it's foggy, and sometimes it rains, it gets cooler at night, so a sweatshirt or sweater is a nice item to have then, but for the most part, t-shirt and jeans are a year round wardrobe staple.

The last four months of our first summer in Fresno have been in the high 90's and low 100's. Four months of triple digit and near-triple digit heat - but from what I've been hearing, it gets cold here in the winter. Not cold enough to snow, but significantly cooler - and significantly cooler than we are used to in Santa Barbara.

50 degrees is the average high for December. A hot winter for Canada or Minnesota, but, when you've gotten used to 100 degrees, a high of 50 degrees is going to be a noticeable change.

Seasons.

I live somewhere now where there are seasons! There are places in California that experience seasonal changes! I'm sure you all are rolling your eyes right now, thinking this is all very mundane - but I grew up in Santa Barbara, went to college in Santa Cruz, which is not all that different, and I've lived in Santa Barbara for 9 years now --- so this whole seasonal-changes-in-California thing is tripping me out right now.

It snows in Yosemite, an hour away - enough to require snow chains. I want to see the snow, but snow chains are a little intimidating. I've never bought or used them before.

It was 97 degrees yesterday, and today I'm thinking about snow chains!

Seasons!

Crazy.