BY WARMING, WE MEAN A NEW ICE AGE... (via Glenn Dryfoos)

Southland feels early chill of early storm (Ari Bloomekatz, 9/19/07, Los Angeles Times)

Cooler weather and high winds moved into Southern California today in advance of a storm that could bring snow to the mountains and the first rain to Los Angeles in about 150 days.

Meteorologists said the unstable weather system coming from British Columbia was the Southland's first winter storm, arriving months ahead of schedule and sending temperatures eight to 15 degrees below normal. [...]

"The storm is pretty unusual. It's pretty much our first winter storm of the season and it's barely fall," said weather service meteorologist Edan Lindaman. "Typically, we don't see storms like this until into early April."