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March 27, 2007
Blown Away in LA
LAist looked out our window this morning and saw sunshine and bright blue skies, a seemingly typical Southern California day. We considered breaking out the flip flops to celebrate this spring weather.
Upon leaving a climate-controlled building for a lunch break, however, we discovered the weather had taken an apocryptal turn. Teeth-chattering cold, with the trees whipping in the sudden gusts of wind and large clumps of pollen flying through the air and sticking to our jeans.
Weather.com claims it's 64 degrees out right now but we beg to differ. They also warn of "high winds" but don't specify how fast they are moving. We should have checked the National Weather Service this morning-- it warns of up to 60 mph winds throughout LA County until 9 o'clock tonight.
The sun's peeking through the clouds right now though we feel a bit wary still. Did anyone else get caught in the freak storm this afternoon?
Photo by lefeber via Flickr.
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Yes! I live & work downtown and was just about to write up a post on this very subject!
And now, eerily, it's sunny again...as if it never happened.
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xTx here, reporting from Torrance to say that we just had a freaking freak HAILSTORM that lasted maybe 5 minutes underneath pitch black clouds.
Now it's 20 minutes later and the sun is shining and the sky is bright blue.
WTF indeed?
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same thing happened down here at usc....very very amusing watching the gilmore girls shoot outside my office try and save the set during the chaotic weather, made it worthwhile!
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i was thinking of doing a post, too! great minds!
we got a freak storm here in north hollywood around noon. the winds are still rattling the windows and howling and shrieking, although the sky returned quickly to blue with big fluffy clouds.
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I'm in the La Canada/Pasadena area, and around 12-1 the skies darkened, it poured, and the temp went down to 48. Now it's up 10 degrees but windy as all get-out. I think the cold freaked me out worse than the winds.