WINTER SPRINGS BACK; ALASKAN STORM KEEPS TEMPERATURES LOW.Byline: Sharline Chiang and Philip Brown Philip Brown (born March 26, 1958) is an American actor probably best known for his performances on television. He first played Billy Martin, the son of Doris Day on The Doris Day Show, from 1968-1971. Daily News Staff Writers Cold, wet, windy - call it winter's last gasp or spring's cruel start, there's no end in sight. Temperatures are expected to plummet into the mid-40s tonight as a vigorous storm from the Gulf of Alaska Noun 1. Gulf of Alaska - a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world swings through Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . And forecasters say it won't be any better Saturday or Sunday as Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, experiences a tough siege of blustery blus·ter v. blus·tered, blus·ter·ing, blus·ters v.intr. 1. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm. 2. a. To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner. spring weather after a dry and mild winter. ``I'm sick of this,'' complained George Miranda, 31, a Burbank warehouse worker. ``I just want to see the sun and go to the beach. It's very cold.'' His sentiment was echoed across the region, but forecasters predicted a 30 percent chance of showers today, with 20 mph winds and high temperatures of just 60 degrees at the Los Angeles Civic Center. It will come close to the 56-degree record-low high temperature set April 9, 1912, for the Los Angeles area. By tonight, the frigid weather will return, with temperatures in the 40s and winds of 30 mph and stronger gusts expected in the mountains surrounding the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . The record low for the day is 40 degrees, set in 1900. ``It is April, and April showers bring forth May flowers,'' said meteorological me·te·or·ol·o·gy n. The science that deals with the phenomena of the atmosphere, especially weather and weather conditions. [French météorologie, from Greek technician Bill Hoffer ``These systems can develop around this time of year because it's a transition period. They create these dynamically strong systems, and they can come down, which they do, as they kick out to the East,'' Hoffer said. ``It doesn't happen every single year, yet it's not that unusual.'' Saturday is expected to be sunny, with a high of 58 predicted for Woodland Hills and a low of 42. Burbank will see 59, with temperatures falling to 43 overnight, and Newhall is expected to reach 52 today, but shiver at 37 tonight. Sunday is expected to be cloudy and cool with chances of showers in the Los Angeles area, including the Valley. Highs are expected to be in the mid-50s to mid-60s, with lows in the 40s. Monday calls for partly cloudy Partly Cloudy is an industrial band based in Hollywood, California. Band members
``I'm freezing - it should be sunny,'' Sandra Keyes, 22, of Northridge said Thursday outside a department store in Woodland Hills. The college student and nanny said she had taken to wearing two and sometimes three layers, often to little avail. ``It doesn't matter how much I wear, it's still cold.'' Variety is the spice of Fred Johnson's life, apparently. The 45-year-old Reseda man, a Department of Defense quality assurance worker, said he ``loves this weather.'' ``If I were the creator, I'd have two days of rain, two days of fog and overcast skies and three days of sunshine every week,'' Johnson said. The good news for plant lovers in the San Fernando Valley is that temperatures are not low enough to result in frost, weather experts said. Nursery workers said owners have little to worry about. ``No sweat - 32 degrees is freezing. When you get to 35 degrees, then you sweat it out,'' said Robert Goka, owner of Frank's Nurseries and Florists in Northridge. Goka said that in the Valley, winds actually protect plants by fanning away extreme cold fronts. However, veterinarians Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons (vets) are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. Well-known and notable veterinarians include:
``Even if you try to gather them in when it starts getting dark and then let them out in the morning,'' said Dr. Debra Hoffman of Tarzana Pet Clinic. Also, she said since it's allergy season, most pets' lungs are more susceptible to getting sick during such weather changes. At Super Garden Center in Canoga Park, nursery salesman and garden specialist Cal Wright suggested that if you think a freeze is coming, cover your vulnerable plants with burlap or a sheet - not plastic. ``The plants will freeze right through the plastic,'' said Wright, 73, who has been in the nursery business since he was a teen-ager. If your favorite garden plants do freeze, wait until the cold weather ends, then prune them back to get rid of all the dead portions, he said. If only portions of a stem or branch have turned brown, ``shave off the dead material until you see green,'' he said. ``Don't feed the plants until you see new growth, then fertilize them,'' Wright said. ``If there's no growth, the plants are probably gone.'' Common vulnerable plants include impatiens impatiens (ĭmpā`shēĕnz'): see jewelweed. impatiens Any of about 900 species of herbaceous plants in the genus Impatiens (balsam family), so named because the seedpod bursts when slightly touched. Garden balsam (I. , begonias, fuchsias, hibiscus and ferns. Green Thumb customer Mary Tangalakis of Tarzana said she's never worried about her plants freezing and has never taken precautions. ``If they do freeze, I would probably cry. I cry easily,'' Tangalakis said. ``I would wait to see if they come back.'' Another customer, Julia Tran of Woodland Hills, said she wasn't worried about the predicted cold weather or wind chill wind chill, the cooling effect of wind and temperature combined, expressed in terms of the effect produced by a lower, windless temperature, also called wind chill factor, wind chill temperature, wind chill equivalent temperature, wind chill index, wind chill . ``I have mostly roses, and they love the cold,'' Tran said. ``If other things die, I'll just replant re·plant v. To reattach an organ, limb, or other body part surgically to the original site. n. An organ, limb, or body part that has been replanted. . Gardening is relaxing to me.'' Daily News Staff Writer Jesse Hiestand contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO Mike Keane of Reseda tries to weather the storm while waiting out a rain delay before Thursday night's Dodgers-Rockies game. Tom Mendoza/Daily News |
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