> > Re the weather -- I took the kids shopping* yesterday, every time we > came out of a store, the weather was different. Blue sky -> High Wind -> > "Schneeregen" (snow/rain mix) -> Blue Sky -> Schneeregen -> Wind/partly > cloudy. The only other place I've lived with weather that variable was > Baumholder (Germany). People would be in AM formation in shirt sleeves, > but carrying wet-weather gear and parkas because "blue sky's a lie". > > > > r > > Many places in the world where the locals say, “Don’t like the weather, > hang round for 15 minutes.” > > San Diego has consistency going for it. And it’s usually consistently > nice. > > There's a question of intensity and scale, where I think Edinburgh is comparable to Baumholder. The baseline I'm using, Baumholder was chosen by the German Wehrmacht in the years leading up to WWII as a training base for its young officer cadets -- specifically /because/ the weather was so variable. Four seasons... before lunch.
I've lived in several places where the 15min comment would work, but the changes were linear and not chaotic, like I'm seeing here. The problem I'd have with SD is the same that I had with Nairobi: They appear to be both "two season" places. You don't have weather, you have climate. r
