I thought you moved to Idaho like 6 months ago.

I know, all you 'Zonans are gonna tell us to suck it up, that's nothing. But, that's why we don't live in the desert, not supposed to be this bad here.

I believe you DO live in a desert. The average annual rainfall in LA is under 15 inches.

According to the widely used Koppen classification, Los Angeles and its coastal basin are humid, with a Mediterranean climate of winter rains and warm summers similar to its European namesake. In fact, migrants from the eastern states, arriving in the early nineteenth century, described a Los Angeles plain filled with ponds, forested, and anything but a desert. The ponds dried up and the forests disappeared, not because the climate changed but because resources were simply overused.

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Given the city's mean annual temperature of 65 degrees, to qualify as a desert under the Koppen system Los Angeles' yearly rainfall would have to average less than 7.22 inches. That has occurred less than ten times in the past 125 years. To put it another way, with its nearly 15 inches of rain each year the city would have to have a mean annual temperature of 100 degrees to be a desert. With a temperature like that the basin's overpopulation problem would quickly disappear.

I'm gonna be in San Francisco mid Oct for a wedding. My cousin said that it is usually chilly around that time. Didn't think it got cold in CA, but hey . . .

As for Idaho, you won't have to worry about hot Septembers, because winter starts early up there and ends late. We stayed there in mid-June for our Yellowstone trip, and we have sleet, freezing rain, and some snow even. Even got caught in a white out on a mountaintop there.