Fall in LA is basically an extension of summer. the hottest montsh are september and october. you do have some cold spells but it is generally still warm and we get heat spells as well. so cal climate is so random you never know what you will get. for example on thanksgiving it was 85 degrees where i live and i m only 5 miles from the beach. some areas reached over 90. then a week after thanksgiving it got really cold. as far as leaves falling, that happens everywhere pretty much. there is hardly any rain here. we just got our first big storm last week in almost a year.
It s certainly not like other parts of the country. Sometimes late September is the hottest time of the year. You almost always have a Santa Ana condition several times per month in September, and often in October and November. A Santa Ana condition is when high pressure builds up over the deserts of Nevada and Utah, and blows hot dry air over SoCal. Rain: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes you can go all of autumn with no rain. We had a little rain in October, but this December storm is the first major storm of the year, with only a week left in autumn.Cloudy? Somtimes, especially closer to the coast.Leaves? Keep in mind that there aren t many trees here. The only trees we have in SoCal are trees that were planted by humans, except for some pines up in the mountains. We have a few sycamores here and there, as well as liquid amber. The liquid ambers near my house just changed LAST WEEK. It s very rare that anyone has to rake leaves off their lawn. And speaking of lawns, 99% of lawns stay green all winter.Like I said, it s not like anywhere else.
it s usually very warm and dry, we barely get any rain at all, and of course the deciduous trees lose their leaves, that s natural. We have the Santa Ana winds gushing through the valleys, which really sucks now since they pick up the ash leftover from the wildfires we had a couple of months back, that makes the air overbearingly dirty!
We will let you know if we ever get one.The seasons in LA are:NiceReally NiceWInd and Fire - Usually in what other places call AutumnMonsoon - Usually some time in what others call Wibnter. We have not had one of these for about 3 years now but had a bit of it last Saturday.The length of each of these seasons varies year to year. And can be from 2 days to 5-6 months. And a bit of one can happen in the middle of another.
Sometimes it rains, the rainy season is in the spring. Cool to warm days, with cool nights. Trees in So. CA fall by the calender. Not because of a frost, but the sycamore and liquid amber trees turn color and fall.
We sometimes get rain toward the end of Autumn. There is not much change of seasons here if we get it it is late in December. Mostly we get Santa Anna winds, and weather in the 76 to 85 range.
It varies year-to-year. I ve been here for 10 years and it seems like most of the fall season is when summer *really* hits (it get even hotter than it was during summer), and then winter/rain hits.
hmm wouldnt it be nice to live in los angeles, instead of dark at 3:30pm manchester, england :/
Recently its like summer.