Comments on: Winter in Bay Area http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/01/12/winter-in-bay-area/ Personal thoughts, business, economics, politics Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: admin http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/01/12/winter-in-bay-area/#comment-17 admin Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:38:06 +0000 http://peterzaitsev.com/?p=11#comment-17 Erin, Right. The Winter is different from other seasons... though it is more like Summer in Russia. When I saw (long time ago) pictures with green grass on the hills I thought this is summer... no it is actually winter and during summer it is all going to be yellow/brown :) Erin,

Right. The Winter is different from other seasons… though it is more like Summer in Russia. When I saw (long time ago) pictures with green grass on the hills I thought this is summer… no it is actually winter and during summer it is all going to be yellow/brown :)

]]> By: erin oneill http://peterzaitsev.com/2009/01/12/winter-in-bay-area/#comment-16 erin oneill Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:23:24 +0000 http://peterzaitsev.com/?p=11#comment-16 Peter, Peter, Peter! We do have winter in CA (although this is the most unusual winter I can remember and I was born & raised here). First off, the color of the light changes. It changes through the seasons rather dramatically if you shoot color (esp. color film). Then each area of CA has their own little weather things to tell us that the season has changed. In SF it's the wind. The wind dies down in the fall and thru the winter unless we are having a storm (a sudden wind tells us a storm is coming, a lack of wind in late summer/early fall tells us an earthquake maybe coming). We have cold rain. Warm rain is a weird thing for us Californians. We also have a "false spring" that usually occurs around Valentines day. On my street the cherry blossoms arrive and then just as suddenly we have a rain storm to spread the blossoms all over the street! The change of seasons is subtle in CA. Perhaps a bit like a MySQL db that's usage has increased, you may not notice that its slowing down if you're not looking for it and suddenly it hits everyone that the db is slow. That's kinda like CA seasons. :) Peter, Peter, Peter!
We do have winter in CA (although this is the most unusual winter I can remember and I was born & raised here). First off, the color of the light changes. It changes through the seasons rather dramatically if you shoot color (esp. color film). Then each area of CA has their own little weather things to tell us that the season has changed. In SF it’s the wind. The wind dies down in the fall and thru the winter unless we are having a storm (a sudden wind tells us a storm is coming, a lack of wind in late summer/early fall tells us an earthquake maybe coming). We have cold rain. Warm rain is a weird thing for us Californians. We also have a “false spring” that usually occurs around Valentines day. On my street the cherry blossoms arrive and then just as suddenly we have a rain storm to spread the blossoms all over the street!

The change of seasons is subtle in CA. Perhaps a bit like a MySQL db that’s usage has increased, you may not notice that its slowing down if you’re not looking for it and suddenly it hits everyone that the db is slow. That’s kinda like CA seasons. :)

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