June Is Busting Out All Over

Sunsets lost in
Skies of hazy greys
June gloom sets in
Puts me in a daze
Nothing changes
All we do is wait
Our heads hanging
Shaking in dismay ~ June Gloom, The Like

It's spring in Southern California. The desert to the east is heating nicely, most days the temperature is over 100 degrees F. The ocean to the west still has its Arctic chill, the water temp is seldom over 65 degrees F.

Here, the physics of earthly weather patterns are on display. The hot, dry desert air sucks in cold, moist ocean winds. The land in between where most of the people live is naturally encased in a thick layer of coastal low clouds. For a couple of months every year the fabled Southern California sun is a sad hoax as all we see are endless days of clouds known, unfondly, by the locals as May Grey and June Gloom.