Home restaurant’s sprawling outdoor patio in Los Feliz, set under a canopy of large trees, was designed to take advantage of California’s temperate climate and typically sunny skies.
But this February has been so cold that the restaurant scrambled to set up extra heaters outside the Craftsman-style house to keep diners and workers warm during the record-setting cold winter.
“We had three heaters going for a while and this month it just hasn’t been enough,” said Sam Yoo, a manager at the restaurant. “I’m trying to have the waiters and hostesses wear warmer clothing, but I have one heater set up right by the host stand so they don’t catch colds.”
For the first time since forecasters began recording data — at least 132 years — the mercury did not reach 70 degrees in downtown Los Angeles for the entire month of February.
The average high for the month was 61 degrees, significantly lower than the historical average of 68 for February. That makes it the eighth-coldest February on record, said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
“Most of the time we’ll get one or two Santa Ana wind events in between the rain that would give us temperatures above 70 degrees,” he added. “But it’s just been back-to-back storms and no offshore flows.”
It’s a big change for Southern California, where temperatures having been rising to record levels in recent years along with a prolonged drought. Weather experts said the chilly February doesn’t signal a larger change in some of those trends.
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Another snowstorm is moving from west to east US.
whereas in the UK we had new record high temperatures for February…20.2 degrees C, which is just nuts… it ought to have been 10 degrees lower. We had a week of brilliant sunshine and temperatures in the upper teens (C, not your old fashioned Fahrenheit!).
spring flowers and butterflies everywhere.
The world’s climate doesn’t stop at US national boundaries…
How many stations broke their records in the lovely early spring week here in Blighty? Just because a couple recorded new maxima doesn’t mean they all did. Breaking a record in one (or maybe two or three locations) doesn’t mean it did everywhere, but listening to the UK MSM you could be fooled into thinking exactly that
Cherry picking, thorougly sick to the back teeth of seeing it, whether right here or anywhere else. This applies to both sides of the argument, of course.
Spring temperatures in the UK will be very variable.
I don’t have the number of places to hand, and I’m sure you could find it as easily as anyone else, if you’re really interested. You can be sure that if places as far apart as London, and West Wales broke the previous UK February record on separate days, then the warmth was country-wide. Meanwhile the Scottish record was also broken, and many towns along the South coast, in the Midlands and the North set new records of their own.
Curiously (after all, “it’s only weather”), only a year ago, on 1st March 2018, a new UK record for a low daily maximum was set, at -4.7 C at Tredegar in Wales (with an unofficial reading of -5.2 nearby)
Powerful frost and blizzards in the US. Temperature in degrees C.
A powerful stratospheric intrusion in two days will bring a strong frost to the east US.
It’s either a lack of knowledge or actual deception but space heaters (usually propane powered) are a common fixture in Southern California outdoor restaurants or restaurant patios and are almost always in use during winter evenings. It doesn’t get to be freezing more than once or twice a year but chilly nights are common.
The snowstorm moves to the northeast US.
Hey, I spent 2 weeks in Europe in June, and never saw 70 degrees.