I haven't been to the beach yet this year because it's been too cold for me although people do go; they tend to be from other parts of the planet. We have what we call "may gray" and "june gloom" and it's still not over this year--very cloudy and overcast along the coast, so that we get unclouded sun on the coast for maybe 3 or 4 hours a day. The water is cold northern Pacific water and so if it's not sunny and warm out, it's too cold for swimming. So much for that myth!
In fact, it's not that hot in southern california, which makes for a 'zonie' invasion every summer (people from Arizona) who come to cool off from the desert heat. I believe the high yesterday, along the coast where I live, was something like the mid-70's. Of course, the low was something like the mid-60's. We don't get much temperature change over a 24 hour period; now what does make the weather here outstanding for the beach is that in August and September, our two warmest months of the year, we will get heat waves; but it always cools down at night so we can sleep well. One more digression FYI is that we have about a dozen microclimates within San Diego county. Because of the topography we get coastal weather, inland weather, mountain weather, desert weather. If you go to www.signonsandiego.com and click on weather at the very top right you'll see the four major climate zones and the highs and lows. I used to live inland, in between the coastal mountain range and the inland mountain range, when my kids were growing up and there we had very cold winters--just a 30 minute drive from school, which is on the coast. At night throughout dec, jan, feb, we'd be down in the upper 20's all winter long. Of course daytime highs were in the 70's. But in the summer, we'd be in the upper 90's quite often! In the evening, however, we'd usually get the cool- down except during big heat waves. And all of this is complicated by the Santa Ana winds, which can cause awful wildfires, and also great heat. So we can get a long, very hot wave any time in the winter when the wind conditions develop--in the upper 80's even along the coast and 90's inland, for a week or two at a time. Mountain weather has lots and lots of tunderstorms year round. In over 20 years in San Diego, I think I've heard thunder three times along the coast. All in all, I think it's perfect weather :) Almost never too hot, almost never too cold. But definitely too dry! No rain hardly ever. It is a desert that people have invaded. When I lived in LA I got lots more beach time. There the weather is more traditionally of what people think of for southern cal. And just as of this year only, you can no longer drink at the beach, but you can in the water, so people have beer brought over from water and they go out into the water to drink it. Very creative ways to get around the laws. Ok enough digression from teaching. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:43:11 -0600 >From: Michael Smith <tipsl...@gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [tips] tips time warp >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > > But isn't San Deigo beach weather all year round? > Can you really drink beer on the beach? In Canada, > as far as I know, it's illegal to drink alchohol in > a public place (so you have to sneak drink it in a > brown paper bag)! > > > --Mike > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM, > <tay...@sandiego.edu> wrote: > > I've been getting replies to my own messages > before I see my original message posted so some > people at least are getting my messages before I > see them posted. > > I'm not sure how I would be aware of that > happening to other people. > > As to why? Too much sun on the 4th? Too much beer > at the beach? Oh no, wait, it's been going on for > a few weeks now but I haven't given it too much > thought--one of those things I can't control ;) > > Annette > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego, CA 92110 > 619-260-4006 > tay...@sandiego.edu > > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:30:42 -0400 > >From: "William Scott" <wsc...@wooster.edu> > >Subject: [tips] tips time warp > >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences > (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > > > >for the last month or so I have been receiving > replies to TIPS messages many hours before the > original to which they refer arrives. I sometimes > feel like making use of the time warp to warn the > original messenger to perhaps modify the message > to thwart the responses. This only seems to be > happening within TIPS. Is anyone else experiencing > this? > > > >Bill Scott > > > > > >--- > >To make changes to your subscription contact: > > > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
