{"id":19678,"date":"2015-02-19T01:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19678"},"modified":"2015-02-19T01:15:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:15:27","slug":"east-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/east-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"East of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/weatwk.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason a million people leave Chicago, New York City and Minneapolis\u00a0and move West. Do you notice any difference in the pictures?\u00a0Last week\u00a0it was so hot in Central and Southern\u00a0California\u00a0that lifeguards were called to the beaches to handle the crowds trying to cool off in the 88 degree heat. They\u00a0want to inform the beach-visiting public\u00a0about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/beach-safety-tips.html\">ocean safety<\/a>\u00a0because there have been so many\u00a0rescues. \u00a0Meanwhile back in the Midwest and Eastern states bitter cold from a 4th winter storm in one month has people scrambling between storms to clear\u00a0food off store shelves, call in the emergency services\u00a0companies to fix the broken pipes, leaking roofs, and\u00a0help start the snowed-in cars. Several more Siberian cold fronts and storms are predicted. \u00a0Here is a comparison that helps Californians understand why we are seeing license plates on our highways from New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Kentucky, Georgia and even Vermont where they usually can handle challenging conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dig this!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feb. 19, 2015 \u00a0in Chicago -30\u00b0 wind\u00a0chill\u00a0 <strong>or<\/strong> \u00a087\u00b0 in Palm Desert. That 117\u00b0 difference!<\/li>\n<li>100.5&#8243; snow in Bangor, Maine <strong>or<\/strong> 5&#8243; rain season total in Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>Boots, gloves, hats, coats on East Coast <strong>or<\/strong> swimsuit sales heating up in California<\/li>\n<li>Hot cocoa, hot coffee, and warm drinks in Midwest<strong> or<\/strong> iced tea, lemonade and cold beer in California<\/li>\n<li>Chapped, cracked, dry skin products <strong>or<\/strong> suntan and sunblock lotions<\/li>\n<li>Statue of Liberty tours in NYC\u00a0&#8211;bring heavy coat and stay bundled\u00a0<strong>or<\/strong> Whale watching tours in California\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0sweater advised in case you feel a chill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason a million people leave Chicago, New York City and Minneapolis\u00a0and move West. Do you notice any difference in the pictures?\u00a0Last week\u00a0it was so hot in Central and Southern\u00a0California\u00a0that lifeguards were called to the beaches to handle the crowds trying to cool off in the 88 degree heat. They\u00a0want to inform the beach-visiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}