Winter's here, let's hit the beach?

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! Not to rub it in, but it's going to be a balmy 83 degrees here on Christmas Eve. Here in LA, the weathermen have names such as Dallas Raines and Johnny Mountain and although their simple and seemingly mundane job is to report the same sunshine everyday (seriously, they could just prerecord and play back the same weather report for the next several months), for some reason they like to devote a good third of the news to talking about the weather. First they talk about the weather in general. Then they break away to different areas of the city to see how people are enjoying the weather. Next, they cut to their correspondents in Vermont or Connecticticut and talk about how much the weather sucks elsewhere (usually, at this time there is lots of chuckling and joking about what people do out there while our residents are having picnics in their shorts). It's all very cruel. Finally, some overly tan man dressed like he's heading for the Casinos after work comes on and reports the numbers. We get it already. It's going to be sunny again and we rule!