Snow for IL, Sunshine for CA

Okay, so I just got off the phone with my dad. We were doing the normal chat thing, when he suddenly exclaimed, "Wow, it is really snowing right now!" I was a little dis-oriented by his statement, because, as I looked out my window, all I could see was mountains, green grass, and lots of sunshine! Then, as I looked at my dash, my temperature gauge read 85 degrees. So I simply mentioned that to my dad, and he said that they were supposed to get snow, but only flurries and it was definitely doing more than just "flurrying."

I used to watch weather.com to compare the temps, so I could flaunt it to everyone I knew. That got old very quickly, so I had stopped doing it. I guess I also stopped realizing that there was such a distinct difference between the Midwest, and the West Coast. Oh well. I guess my payback is that we're under a Red Flag Warning, which means that wildfires can burst up anywhere at anytime, since we've had very little rain since last summer. Luckily, the only fires burning right now are at least 60-75 miles away from us. We've only been witness to one wildfire near us (2 years ago, this July), and it actually was less than 2 miles away from our apartment.

All this to say that I love living on the West Coast!