The temperature here in San Diego has been down to the 60's and 50's, while its is chilly when you get used to 80 degrees everyday, it is nothing to compare to any winter I have gone through before.
In Ireland and England the sun virtually disappears during the winter months, if you get one sunny day between December and March people start to think the world is coming to an end. It does get colder than in San Diego, but nothing to compare with the places I spent the majority of my life so far.
This weekend in Boston there is a severe Ice storm, apparently its so bad that the state of Massachusetts has declared an emergency. Once when I was living there it got down to - 11 F and the entire harbor was frozen solid. Typically the winters there were so cold, snowy, and harsh, I definitely don't miss being in college there from November til April.
Of course the place I spent most of my life right around New York City has a very similiar winter to that of Boston and New England. Being about 200 miles to the south of Boston it is somewhat milder. It gets very cold and there is a lot of snow, but in my time living there, I never experienced ice storms in the New York area. Winter was still long and unpredictable, where it could snow on any given day between November and late March.
I am not really a big hot weather guy, but I have been spoiled by the climate here in Southern California. In the next couple weeks I hope to make it up to San Francisco to see what its like up there, I have heard great things, so my expectations are high.  ¶ 12:39 PM