Climate of Southern California 



grow on the canon side ; oranges and lemons are ripen- 

 ing, and the city gardens glow with every flower seen in 

 the East in July. 



So pass the winter days. The land is gay with 

 tourists, and the now green golf-links of Santa Barbara, 

 Coronado, Avalon, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Pasa- 

 dena are filled with players ; the mountain caftons are 

 picnic grounds, and there are trips to the coast, and sea- 

 bathing ; and the towns along-shore Venice, Long 

 Beach, Ocean Park, Terminal, Santa Monica, Avalon, 

 Playa Del Ray, Coronado, Santa Barbara, and others are 

 crowded with an array of visitors from all over the 

 world, basking in the soft and balmy winds. 



The rain-storms now due are often not storms at 

 all, but gentle winds. Again it blows heavily, and the 

 rain that has been heralded off the Washington coast 

 strikes Southern California as a south-easter ; a south- 

 east wind is an indication of rain. You are impressed by 

 one feature in the winter that is sure and definite : you 

 rarely have a day that some part of it is not available 

 for an outing of some kind, and you have never passed 

 a winter where there were so few rainy days. It is life 

 in the open, and an abundance of it ; a life of sunshine. 

 Sometimes there is a " norther " and the air is " sting- 

 ing," yet the flowers do not complain, and the orange- 

 trees have never been killed down. 



On these winter days the thermometer will read at 

 mid-day from 65 to 75. On rainy days or during a 

 storm it will read from 55 to 65. The rains are sup- 



